Michelle AssayMichelle Assay is the principal investigator of the Marie Curie/UK Research and Innovation-funded project, ‘Women and Western Art Music in Iran’, hosted at King’s College London and the University of Toronto, in partnership with UNESCO’s Intangible Cltural Heritage centre in France. Born in Tehran, she holds a PhD from the Sorbonne and University of Sheffield, with a dissertation on Hamlet in Stalin’s Russia, which she is currently preparing for publication by Routledge. She is the author of several prize-winning publications on Shakespeare’s Russian and Soviet afterlife. Michelle is chair and founder of the Shakespeare and Music Study Group, and of the GWAM (Global Western Art Music) network. She appears on BBC Radio 3 and 4 and is a regular contributor to Gramophone magazine. Read More Read Less