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Sophie Fuller studied music at King’s College, London University where she completed her doctoral thesis on ‘Women Composers during the British Musical Renaissance, 1880-1918’. For ten years she was a lecturer in music at the University of Reading and is the author of The Pandora Guide to Women Composers : Britain and the United States, 1629-present (1994). She is co-editor of and contributor to two recent collections of essays – with Lloyd Whitesell, Queer Episodes in Music and Modern Identity (2002) and with Nicky Losseff, The Idea of Music in Victorian Fiction (2004) – and currently serves on the editorial board of the journal twentieth-century music. She has been a frequent contributor to various television and radio programmes as well as giving conference papers in the UK, the USA, France, Germany, Italy and Australia. She has written entries for The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The Oxford Companion to Music, The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Women Composers: Music through the Ages and Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart.
Sophie’s research interests include many different aspects of music, gender and sexuality but focus in particular on musical life in late 19th- and 20th-century Britain. Her most recent work in this area has been on creative women and exoticism in fin-de-siècle Britain and on the significance of the private musical world in the life and career of Edward Elgar. Other interests include song, together with its composers and singers – from Hildegard of Bingen through Maude Valérie White and Clara Butt to George Michael – and Russian music and music in Russia. |
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