I gained my PhD from Sheffield University with a dissertation ‘The I of the Other: Opera, Gender and Autonomy in Vienna 1900-1918’ and a multi-media one-woman show The Vienna Show. Both the dissertation and the show explored the representation of women in opera in Vienna at this period and its relationship with the controversy surrounding the contemporary women’s movement.
Since 2012 I have been an Academic Professor at the Royal College of Music, lecturing on the History of Music and running a postgraduate course on Women in Music, as well as supervising a number of undergraduate and postgraduate projects.
My research focuses on gender representation and women musicians in the 19th and 20th centuries, particularly in Britain and Vienna. I’m also interested more generally in 19th and 20th century opera and vocal music and its relationship with its social context.’
