Katharine Ellis
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- St Anne's College, Oxford
- Open University
- Royal Holloway, University of London
- Institute of Musical Research, School of Advanced Study
- University of Bristol
- Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge
- Selwyn College, Cambridge
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| Alma mater | University College, Oxford Guildhall School of Music |
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| Discipline | Musicology and cultural history |
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Katharine Ellis, FBA, MAE is a British musicologist and academic, specialising in music history. Since 2017, she has been the 1684 Professor of Music at the University of Cambridge. She previously taught at the Open University, at Royal Holloway, University of London and at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, before serving as Stanley Hugh Badock Professor of Music at the University of Bristol (2013–2017).
Ellis studied at University College, Oxford, graduating with Bachelor of Arts (BA) and Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) degrees.[1] She also studied the violin at the Guildhall School of Music.[2] Her DPhil was awarded in 1991 for a doctoral thesis titled "La revue et gazette musicale de Paris, 1834-1880: the state of music criticism in mid nineteenth-century France".[3]
Academic career
Ellis's first post in her academic career was as a junior research fellow in French studies at St Anne's College, Oxford[1] Then, from 1991 to 1994, she lectured with the Open University.[1][4] In 1994, she joined Royal Holloway, University of London as a lecturer.[1] She was additionally the inaugural Director of the Institute of Musical Research, which was then based at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, between February 2006 and July 2009.[2][5][6][7]
In 2013, Ellis joined the University of Bristol as its next Stanley Hugh Badock Professor of Music.[1][8] She gave her inaugural lecture on 13 February 2014.[9] In August 2016, it was announced that she would be the next 1684 Professor of Music at the University of Cambridge, in succession to Nicholas Cook.[5] She took up the chair in June 2017,[1] and was also elected a Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge.[10]
Research
Ellis's research centres on the cultural history of music in France in the long nineteenth century.[4][11] She also has interests in musical tastes and practices, women's musical careers, music criticism, and music in fiction.[2][4][5][11]
