Find a research supervisor in musicology

Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Germany and Austria; symphony and opera; music and politics.

• Singers and Singing Culture, especially Early Modern
• Early Modern Italian Vocal Music
• Modal and Rhetorical Analysis of Early Modern Music
• Feminism and Gender Studies
• Performance Theories

Research and supervision areas:

• Music of Vietnam; Music of Asia
• Theories of creativity
• Theories of genre development
• Queer ethnography

Music and meaning; Music analysis; Music and philosophy; Music semiotics; Popular music; The blues; Jazz; Music for film; Late eighteenth-century music

Twentieth-century Italian music; Twentieth-century British music; Analysis of post-tonal music; Theories of musical realism and modernism; Critical Theory; History of Aesthetics; Music under Fascism

Electronic dance music; Affect / emotions; Sexuality and queer theory; Tourism, travel and migration; Culture industries and creative labour; Sound studies, texture, tactility

Experimental music, electronic music, media art, sound art; popular music; History and critical theory of music technology; Digital musicology; Music and genre; Perception of sound and music; Practice-based research in these areas. 

Early Music Performance Practice; Fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; popular music; performance; Shostakovich; violin performance; conducting

I am a prize-winning pianist, researcher, and writer. I work on music and identity formations, music and biography/life-writing, and on song and song performance. I have written about these topics with reference to music, composers, performers, and performance in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century. My research grows out of and informs my work as a ...

Music analysis;  Music and nationalism; Classical and Romantic instrumental music British music since 1887.

British Music of the C19th and early C20ths; Anglican Church Music; English Opera