Steve Newman is Associate Professor of English at Temple University in Philadelphia. He is the author of Ballad Collection, Lyric, and the Canon: The Call of the Popular from The Restoration to the New Criticism (Penn) and numerous articles on Read More …
Jeanice Brooks is Professor of Music at the University of Southampton. Her main interests include music and culture in Renaissance France; musical culture of the mid-twentieth century, especially the career of Nadia Boulanger; domestic music-making in Britain c. 1800; and Read More …
Dr Catherine Bateson graduated from the University of Edinburgh, where her AHRC/SGSAH-supported History PhD focused on the culture and sentiments of Irish American Civil War songs and music. She studies the way in which Irish singing culture influenced American musical Read More …
Alice Little recently completed her DPhil in Music at Oxford University, focusing on music collecting in eighteenth-century England, and particularly the tunebooks of John Malchair (1730-1812). She is now Research Associate at the Bate Collection of Musical Instruments and a Read More …
Leith Davis is Professor of English at Simon Fraser University in Canada. She is the author of Acts of Union: Scotland and the Negotiation of the British Nation (Stanford UP, 1998) and Music, Postcolonialism and Gender: The Construction of Irish Read More …
Introduction by Kirsteen McCue (University of Glasgow) In many ways our RNSN concert on 18 March 2019 was the culmination of our network, though we still have many resources and ‘song stories’ to be added to the website and the Read More …
Introduction by Kirsteen McCue (University of Glasgow) We are most grateful to Sam McShane and her team at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland for working with us and the other UK conservatories to bring together our team of singers for Read More …
Ian Newman is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, and a fellow of the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish studies. He specializes in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British and Irish literature. He is the author of The Read More …
Alice Little recently completed her DPhil in Music at Oxford University, focusing on music collecting in eighteenth-century England, and particularly the collection of John Malchair (1730-1812). She is now Research Associate at the Bate Collection of Musical Instruments and a Read More …
David Kennerley is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the School of History at Queen Mary University of London. He completed his doctorate at the University of Oxford in 2014 with a thesis on professional female singers in Britain, c.1760–1850. Read More …