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
Head of School of Languages, Cultures, Art History and Music

  • 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)
Virtual Year Abroad Lead

As Lecturer (Teaching) English as a Modern Foreign Language (EMFL), John Goodyear is the Academic Lead for this newly devised programme, specifically for overseas students, in the Department of Modern Languages. Alongside this teaching work, he also plays an important role as part of the Year Abroad team, currently the Acting Chair of the Year Abroad and the Acting German Year Abroad Coordinator ...

Modern languages staff research supervision areas