Melanie Plesch has a PhD in historical musicology from the University of Melbourne and a graduate of the “Juan José Castro” Provincial Conservatory as a Researcher in Musicological Sciences, Senior Guitar Professor and Senior Professor of Musicology. Her research focuses on the intersections between music and politics, especially the relationship between academic music and the construction of national identities, highlighting its pioneering application of topical theory to the study of Argentine musical nationalism. She has served as a teacher at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Buenos Aires, the Faculty of Arts and Musical Sciences of the Argentine Catholic University and as a visiting professor at the National University of Cuyo. She has published articles in the Argentine Magazine of Musicology, Music and Research, Musical Quarterly and Patterns of Prejudice, among others. She is the author of the critical study and facsimile edition of the 1837 Musical Bulletin and of the Discourse on Music by Fernando Cruz Cordero and co-editor, along with Silvina Luz Mansilla, of New Studies on Argentine Music. Based in Australia since 2005, she is currently a professor and researcher at the University of Melbourne.