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Melanie is a musicologist with research and teaching interests in gender, sexuality and eroticism in music, and music of early modern Italy. She holds a BMus from the University of Edinburgh and an MA and PhD from the University of Southampton. Since joining UCC in 2005, Melanie has taught at undergraduate and postgraduate levels within the Music Department and on interdisciplinary programs within the College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences. From 2011-2014, Melanie held a Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship to conduct research into music and eroticism in early modern Rome. During the fellowship, Melanie spent six months as a Visiting Scholar at UCLA Department of Musicology and eighteen months as a Visiting Scholar at NYU Department of Music. From Sept. 2015, Melanie will also be a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Music, Gender and Identity at the University of Huddersfield.

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Research Interests

My research interests can be broadly summarised as music & identities and music & culture. My prime research focus is on music, gender, sexuality & class in early modern Italy, and I have subsidiary interests in contemporary identities & music practices. I am interested in the significance of music at the time in which it circulates, and in the historical and cultural contingency of gender and sexuality. 

My current projects include a co-edited essay collection on Beyoncé (with Martin Iddon); a monograph on the villotta; and a monograph arising from my Marie Curie fellowship research into eroticism and music in early modern Italy. 

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Edited Books

	Year	Publication
	(2014)	Sexualities, Textualities, Art and Music in Early Modern Italy Melanie L. Marshall, Linda L. Carroll and Katherine A. McIver (Ed.). (2014) Sexualities, Textualities, Art and Music in Early Modern Italy Sexualities, Textualities, Art and Music in Early Modern Italy. Aldershot, UK and Burlington, VT: Ashgate. [Details]
	(2014)	Lady Gaga and Popular Music: Performing Gender, Fashion and Culture Iddon, Martin and Melanie L. Marshall (Ed.). (2014) Lady Gaga and Popular Music: Performing Gender, Fashion and Culture Lady Gaga and Popular Music: Performing Gender, Fashion and Culture. New York: Routledge. [Details]

Book Chapters

	Year	Publication
	(2015)	'Imitating the Rustic and Revealing the Noble: Masculine Power and Music at the Court of Ferrara' Marshall, Melanie L. (2015) 'Imitating the Rustic and Revealing the Noble: Masculine Power and Music at the Court of Ferrara' In: Bonnie Blackburn and Laurie Stras (eds). Eroticism in Early Modern Music. Aldershot, UK and Burlington, VT: Ashgate. [Details]
	(2014)	'‘Farò quel che mi piacerà’: fictional women in villotta voice resistance' Marshall, Melanie L. (2014) '‘Farò quel che mi piacerà’: fictional women in villotta voice resistance' In: Sexualities, Textualities, Art and Music in Early Modern Italy. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate. [CORA Link] [Details]
	(2014)	'Playing with Boundaries' Marshall, Melanie L., Linda L. Carroll and Katherine A. McIver (2014) 'Playing with Boundaries' In: Sexualities, Textualities, Art and Music in Early Modern Italy. Aldershot, UK and Burlington, VT: Ashgate. [Details]
	(2014)	'Consuming Gaga' Marshall, Melanie L. (2014) 'Consuming Gaga' In: Iddon, Martin and Melanie L. Marshall (eds). Lady Gaga and Popular Music: Performing Gender, Fashion and Culture. New York: Routledge. [Details]
	(2014)	'Introduction' Iddon, Martin and Melanie L. Marshall (2014) 'Introduction' In: Lady Gaga and Popular Music: Performing Gender, Fashion and Culture. New York: Routledge. [Details]
	(2009)	'Grateful Friends, True Friends: Gifts of Music and Poetry Associated with Girolamo Fenaruolo' Marshall, Melanie L. (2009) 'Grateful Friends, True Friends: Gifts of Music and Poetry Associated with Girolamo Fenaruolo' In: Uno gentile et subtile ingenio: Studies in Renaissance Music in Honour of Bonnie Blackburn. Turnhout: Brepols. [Details]

Peer Reviewed Journals

	Year	Publication
	(2015)	'Voce Bianca: Purity and Whiteness in British Early Music Vocality' Marshall, Melanie L. (2015) 'Voce Bianca: Purity and Whiteness in British Early Music Vocality'. Women and Music : A Journal of Gender & Culture, 19 :36-44 [DOI] [Details]
	(2011)	'Warriors and Musicians: Notes from the Colonna Family Archive' Marshall, Melanie L. (2011) 'Warriors and Musicians: Notes from the Colonna Family Archive'. Early Music, 39 (2):195-201 [DOI] [CORA Link] [Details]
	(2011)	'Editorial' Brooks, Jeanice and Melanie L. Marshall (2011) 'Editorial'. Early Music, 39 (2):155-155 [DOI] [Details]
	(2009)	'Book Review: Richard Wistreich, Warrior, Courtier, Singer, (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007), for Renaissance Studies: Journal of the Society for Renaissance Studies' Marshall, Melanie L. (2009) 'Book Review: Richard Wistreich, Warrior, Courtier, Singer, (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007), for Renaissance Studies: Journal of the Society for Renaissance Studies'. Renaissance Studies, 23 (3):404-406 [Details]
	(2007)	'Book Review: Susan McClary, Modal Subjectivities: Self-Fashioning in the Italian Madrigal. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004)' Marshall, Melanie L. (2007) 'Book Review: Susan McClary, Modal Subjectivities: Self-Fashioning in the Italian Madrigal. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004)'. Women and Music : A Journal of Gender & Culture, :72-82 [DOI] [Details]
	(2007)	'Book Review: Marco Bizzarini, Luca Marenzio: The Career of a Musician between the Renaissance and the Counter-Reformation, trans. James Chater' Marshall, Melanie L. (2007) 'Book Review: Marco Bizzarini, Luca Marenzio: The Career of a Musician between the Renaissance and the Counter-Reformation, trans. James Chater'. Music and Letters, 88 (1):151-153 [Details]
	(2006)	'Book Review: Kelley Harness, Echoes of Women's Voices: Music, Art and Female Patronage in Early Modern Florence (University of Chicago Press, 2006)' Marshall, Melanie L. (2006) 'Book Review: Kelley Harness, Echoes of Women's Voices: Music, Art and Female Patronage in Early Modern Florence (University of Chicago Press, 2006)'. Current Musicology, 82 :7-12 [Details]
	(2006)	'Book Review: Cecilia Luzzi, Poesia e musica nei madrigali a cinque voci di Filippo Di Monte' Marshall, Melanie L. (2006) 'Book Review: Cecilia Luzzi, Poesia e musica nei madrigali a cinque voci di Filippo Di Monte'. Early Music, 34 (2):292-293 [Details]

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Invited papers

	Year	Publication
	(2015)	'As English As Cornflakes:' Singers, Gender and National Belonging in 20th-century Britain. Marshall, Melanie L. (2015) 'As English As Cornflakes:' Singers, Gender and National Belonging in 20th-century Britain. Columbia University: Invited papers [Details]
	(2012)	Subjectivation and Music: Suggestive Song and Care of the Self. Marshall, Melanie L. (2012) Subjectivation and Music: Suggestive Song and Care of the Self. Oldenburg, Germany: Invited papers [Details]
	(2008)	Lowering the Tone: Strophic Song and the Performance of Gender and Class in Italian Academies. Marshall, Melanie L.; (2008) Lowering the Tone: Strophic Song and the Performance of Gender and Class in Italian Academies. Invited papers [Details]
	(2007)	Female Vocality and Strophic Song in Cinquecento Ferrara. Marshall, Melanie L.; (2007) Female Vocality and Strophic Song in Cinquecento Ferrara. Invited papers [Details]
	(2004)	Imitating the rustic and revealing the noble. Marshall, Melanie L.; (2004) Imitating the rustic and revealing the noble. Invited papers [Details]

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Teaching Interests

Melanie's undergraduate and postgraduate teaching centres on early modern European music (especially on vocal music written or performed in Italy), and on issues of gender and sexuality. She is interested in the cultural significance of music at the time in which it circulates. 

Melanie's courses include:

•   Early Music Ensemble (performance coaching open to all years)
  
•   Editing Early Music (special interest option open to all years)
  
•   Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Music, 1500-1800 (third and fourth year UG seminar)
  
•   Gender and Sexuality in Music (third and fourth year undergraduate seminar) 
•   Music and Ideas: Making Monteverdi's Vespers (first year undergraduate lecture course)
  
•   Music, Festivity and Theatre in Renaissance Europe (special interest option open to all years)
  
•   Music in the Service of Power (undergraduate lecture course)
  
•   Patronage and Propaganda (undergraduate lecture course)
  
•   Performance Studies (first year undergraduate lecture course)
  
•   Renaissance Vocal Ensemble (performance coaching open to all years)
  
•   Women and Music Across Cultures (undergraduate lecture course)
  
•   Musicology and Text (masters seminar course: topics have included Gender & Sexuality, Otherness)
  

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