Graduate study and postdoc mentoring

Graduate Study

A siren points to the cadential formula in the office for Saint Cecilia. Vendôme, Bibliothèque Municipale 0017E, f. 527v.

I am interested in supervising projects on late-medieval music, basically in the period c.1250-c.1400. I will be most interested in your project (and particularly useful to you as a supervisor) if you want to work on anything involving any combination of the following: songs, motets, intertextual issues, broad cultural issues, court culture, music analysis, gender and sexuality studies, nature and animals, French literature, historiography, the ontology of music, Chaucer. If you have only vague ideas for a project in this area, I might be able to suggest something that would build on your interests and skills — just get in touch by email.

Ideal students should be willing to learn to read in modern German and an appropriate medieval language, willing to examine medieval manuscripts, and willing to engage with a spectrum of issues from the minutiae of musical details and the broadest of critical approaches. If you are interested in an academic career after your graduate work, I will offer you assistance with professional development, including the delivery of conference papers and job talks, IT and digital humanities use, and teaching.

Current and recent graduates

My current and recent students are listed here (dates, where give, are completion dates). Please feel free to get in touch with them for the unvarnished account of what it’s like working with me!

Doctoral

As supervisor:

  • Henry Hope: Constructing the Minnesänger musically (web; blog)
  • Matthew Thomson: The motet around 1300 (web; twitter)
As advisor:
  • Christopher Garrard (supervised by Martyn Harry): Composition (web; blog; twitter)
  • Elizabeth Nyikos (supervised by Margaret Bent): 15thC fragments

Masters

  • 2012. Samantha Blickhan: Monophonic song and medieval memory in the 14thC (twitter)
  • 2012. Meghan Quinlan: Contexts for the contrafacta of a troubadour song (google+)
  • 2012. Matthew Thomson: The motet around 1300 (see above)
Postdoc mentoring
I am delighted to mentor early career researchers in the field of early music who have postdoctoral appointments in Oxford. If you would like to explore the possibilities for postdoctoral research work in Oxford, please get in touch with me or with one of my current postdocs:
Catherine Bradley who has a blog here: Medieval Motets