I welcome email enquiries from potential PhD students in any of my areas of research.

My PhD students are undertaking advanced research that interacts with my interests in a variety of ways. As well as meeting me for individual supervisions, they present their work regularly for discussion and critique in termly seminars that involve all my PhD students. Although their specific research focuses take them in a range of methodological and theoretical directions, there are particularly strong interactions in contemporary continental philosophy, critical theory, psychoanalysis, feminism, music analysis, opera and symphonic music, theories of modernism, and music and musical thought in twentieth-century Britain. More information on their research, and their contact details, can be found on their linked department webpages.

Current PhD students

As supervisor

Rebecca Day
Philosophical, analytical, and psychoanalytic conceptions of subjectivity in Mahler’s musical modernism

Oliver Chandler
Edward Elgar’s utopias

William Fourie
Topological approaches to music in post-apartheid South Africa

Christopher Kimbell
Place and German identity in Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Rachel McCarthy
Music, musicology, and anti-capitalism in the twenty-first century

Sarah Moynihan
Analytical conceptions of modernism in late Sibelius

 

Former PhD students

As supervisor

Annika Forkert
The philosophy of musical modernism in Britain and Europe

Michael Graham
Shakespeare and twentieth-century British opera

John Ling
Ethics and aesthetics in musical debates in England, 1888–1907

Nathan Mercieca
The philosophy and ethics of writing about music

Christopher Tarrant
Analytical, hermeneutic, and philosophical study of Schubert’s chamber music for strings

Jessica Williams
Opera and myth in twentieth-century British music

As advisor

Jane Angell
Corissa Gould
Emer Hopkins
Jonathan Lewis
James Olsen
Jeffrey Warren