Publications
E-mail: helen.deeming@rhul.ac.uk

Helen Deeming joined the Royal Holloway music department in 2009, having previously lectured at the University of Southampton since 2005. Helen studied music and medieval history at the University of Cambridge before writing her PhD on English music of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. In 2004-05 she held the Senior Rouse Ball Research Studentship at Trinity College, Cambridge.

Helen is co-editor of the journal Plainsong and Medieval Music, a founder member of the Medieval Song Project based at the Institute of Musical Research, and area editor (responsible for music before 1300) for the forthcoming Grove Dictionary of Early Music.

Helen's research interests lie in medieval music, the history of the book, and the history of musical notation. She has published journal articles in Music & Letters, Early Music, Plainsong and Medieval Music, and the international journal of manuscript studies, Scriptorium, as well as contributing chapters to edited books. Her publications to date have focussed on song in medieval England and northern France, and on the study of manuscript sources, both musical and non-musical. Current projects include a monograph on manuscripts and literate society in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Britain, a book (co-authored with Sam Barrett and Elizabeth Eva Leach) on the sources of medieval song, and an edition for Musica Britannica of previously undiscovered Latin songs in English medieval manuscripts.

Beyond her medieval interests, Helen is also working on a longer-term research project entitled Picturing Sounds: A Cultural History of Music Writing, in which she explores different approaches to the graphical representation of musical sound, in both 'standard' musical scores and in other, especially iconographic, contexts.