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Email: Katharine Ellis

Katharine Ellis studied at University College, Oxford and the Guildhall School of Music, and held posts at St Anne's College, Oxford and the Open University before coming to Royal Holloway in 1994. She is author of two books (Music Criticism in Nineteenth-Century France (1995) and Interpreting the Musical Past (2005)) and joint editor with David Charlton of a collection of essays on Berlioz (The Musical Voyager (2007)) . Her work embraces many aspects of the cultural history of music, seeking to explain what different kinds of music meant to those who experienced them, used them and avoided them, and probing how music and musicians 'worked' within nineteenth-century French society. Article topics range from 'producers' opera' in the 1830s to French Wagnerism, the musical short story, the history of music education, and women as performers. Current projects include an edited collection on music and words (with Phyllis Weliver), a book on music in regional France, 1848 - 1914, and a cultural history of music in nineteenth-century Paris.

Formerly a co-editor of Music & Letters and editor of the Journal of the Royal Musical Association, she serves on the committees of the National Association for Music in Higher Education and the Music Libraries Trust, and is a Vice-President of the Royal Musical Association. From 2006 to 2009 she is on secondment as inaugural Director of the Institute of Musical Research at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, where she is also Deputy Dean of the School.*

*Prof. Ellis will not be available to take on new research students during her secondment.