Faculty Member, Music
Lecturer
About
Expertise summary
I hold a BA in Music and Philosophy from the University of Copenhagen and an MMus and PhD from Royal Holloway, University of London. I joined Nottingham in September 2009, after four years as Lecturer at the University of East Anglia. My research is interdisciplinary, and my principle research interests are music and philosophy (especially music and ethics), and German music, culture, and critical thought during the first half of the twentieth century. Other interests include opera, film music, popular music, melodrama, and music in Scandinavia.
Research summary
My research has so far focused on German music, culture, and critical thought during the first half of the twentieth century. One of my current projects is a book on Paul Bekker (1882-1937), an influential critic, theorist, and opera producer in Weimar Germany. An earlier article on Bekker was commissioned and published by Opera Quarterly.
I am co-author, with Marcel Cobussen, of a second book, entitled Music and Ethics (under contract with Ashgate), and a contributor to the volume Melodramatic Voices: Understanding Music Drama, Sarah Hibberd, ed. (Ashgate, 2011). Other current and future projects include an article on Ernst Krenek’s Jonny spielt auf, and a book on modernism and morality in twentieth-century operas based on the tales of Hans Christian Andersen.
I am interested in supervising postgraduate students in the following areas:
Music and philosophy, especially ethics and aesthetics of twentieth-century music; twentieth-century German opera and music theatre; Paul Bekker; Scandinavian music and culture.
