Anna Harwell Celenza is the Thomas E. Caestecker Professor of Music at Georgetown University. She is the author of several books, including Music as Cultural Mission: Explorations of Jesuit Practices in Italy and North America and the recent book Jazz Italian Style: From Its Origins in New Orleans to Fascist Italy and Sinatra that has been nominated winner for Non Fiction of the Book Award The Bridge 2017. In addition to her scholarly work, she has served as a writer/commentator for NPR's Performance Today and published eight award-winning children's books, among them Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue and Vivaldi's Four Seasons. She has been featured on nationally syndicated radio and TV programs, including the BBC's "Music Matters" and C-Span's "Book TV.”