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Katharine Ellis is a cultural historian specializing in music from France during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Her research encompasses a wide array of topics from medieval plainchant to the works of Les Six. Ellis seeks to explain the cultural implications of musical tastes and practices, examining how music intersects with France’s complex aesthetic and social frameworks. She has authored several influential books including 'Music Criticism in Nineteenth-Century France' (1995), 'Interpreting the Musical Past' (2005), 'Politics of Plainchant in fin-de-siècle France' (2013), and 'French Musical Life' (2022), which won the 2023 Otto Kinkeldey Award from the American Musicological Society. Currently, she is working on a project addressing the turbulent history of Catholic music during the French regimes around the time of the Revolution and the 1905 Separation. Katharine Ellis has held Lectureships at the Open University and Royal Holloway, and she has served as the inaugural Director of the Institute of Musical Research at the University of London since 2006. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and a member of the American Philosophical Society.
University of Cambridge • Cambridge, ENG
Teaching and mentoring PhD students in cultural history of Western music, particularly focusing on music in France and the UK during the 19th and 20th centuries.
Standard postgraduate requirements for Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) and related humanities departments.