Find a research supervisor in music

Staff in the Department of Modern Languages who supervise PhD/MA by Research in the area of music and modern languages.

Professor Helen Abbott

Professor Helen Abbott

Professor of Modern Languages
Deputy Head of College of Arts and Law

  • words/music relations (including aesthetics, translation, adaptation, and performance)
  • poetry and poetics (especially nineteenth-century French, and metre, accentuation, versification)
  • voice/performance in relation to literary texts
  • the role of digital media in researching texts and performances (music, theatre, readings)

Dr John Goodyear

Dr John Goodyear

Lecturer (Teaching) English as a Modern Foreign Language (EMFL)
Chair of the Year Abroad for the School of Languages, Cultures, Art History and Music

As Lecturer (Teaching) English as a Modern Foreign Language (EMFL), John Goodyear is the Academic Lead for this programme of study in the Department of Modern Languages. Alongside this teaching work, he is Chair of the Year Abroad for the School of Languages, Cultures, Art History and Music.

In addition to his teaching role at the University of Birmingham, Goodyear has featured as a presenter on ...

Modern languages staff research supervision areas