Melanie L Marshall

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. Melanie was also a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Music, Gender and Identity at the University of Huddersfield. Melanie is interested in supervising postgraduate research projects in the areas of musicology, early music, and feminism, gender & sexuality in music.

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.

Melanie's undergraduate and postgraduate teaching centres on musicology, early modern European music, and on issues of feminism, gender and sexuality. She is interested in the cultural significance of music at the time in which it circulates. Melanie's recent teaching includes: Disability Studies in Music (UG)Gender & Sexuality in Music (UG) Multidisciplinary Debates in Musicology and Ethnomusicology (MA Musicology: History and Trends (MA)Senior Research Forum (UG)Melanie's past teaching has included: Early Music Ensemble (UG performance coaching) Editing Early Music (UG) Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Music, 1500-1800 (senior UGs) Music and Ideas: Making Monteverdi's Vespers (1st year UGs) Music, Festivity and Theatre in Renaissance Europe (UGs) Italian Renaissance Music (UGs) Performance Studies (1st year UGs) Renaissance Vocal Ensemble (performance coaching) Women and Music Across Cultures (UGs) Musicology and Text (MA)