Academic staff

  • Dr Ruxandra Marinescu (Programme Coordinator)

     is Assistant Professor in Musicology. Her research focuses on transmission and reception of music in French court culture ca. 1250-1400, musical lyrics interpolated into narratives, the production and dissemination of books with music, and the palaeography of late medieval music sources. More recently she works on women鈥檚 patronage, music and the cults of saints in Southern France in the late Middle Ages.  

  • Dr Rebekah Ahrendt

    Rebekah Ahrendt is Associate Professor in Musicology. A specialist in music of the late 16th through 18th centuries, Ahrendt cultivates broader research interests in music and migration and music and diplomacy across the longue dur茅e. She is co-director of the international research project  and Vice Chair of the COST Action project . Ahrendt also performs regularly on the viola da gamba.

  • Dr Annelies Andries

    Annelies Andries is Assistant Professor in Musicology. Her research investigates developments in European musical cultures in the wake of military conflict (largely focusing on the long nineteenth century, 1789-1918). She addresses issues of music鈥檚 performance, translation and politics in their intersections with trauma and gender studies, as well as the history of emotions and medicine.

  • Dr Michiel Kamp

     is Assistant Professor in Musicology. He works on the role of music in contemporary audiovisual media, from film to video games and internet videos. His research particularly deals with issues of hermeneutics and phenomenology. He is co-founder of the  study group, which has organised yearly conferences on video game music since 2011.

  • Dr Kate Mancey

     is Assistant Professor of Music and Media. Her research explores intersections of music, technology, and society from the late-19th century to today. From washing machines that play Schubert to online discourse around music-AI, she asks how understandings of music can shape our experiences of technology, and vice versa. Working with repertoire that often challenges traditional music/sound binaries, she aims to think expansively about what it means to do (music) analysis.

  • Dr Floris Schuiling

     is Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Music. He specialises in 20th- and 21st-century music in the Netherlands, with a focus on jazz but also including popular and experimental music. His previous work addressed creativity in musical performance, reconsidering the relation between notation, improvisation, and technology. He currently leads the  ERC research project, describing Dutch jazz history from a postcolonial perspective.

  • Dr Ed Spencer

    is Assistant Professor of Screen and Music Cultures. Spencer studies the relationships between popular music, social media content, and cultural politics online by taking a mixed methods approach. He is also interested in electronic dance music and soundsystem culture, ways of moving to music, and postcolonial perspectives on music. Ed is a co-founder of the Music and Online Cultures Research Network ().

  • Dr Sebastian Wedler

    Sebastian Wedler is Assistant Professor in Musicology. His research concerns the history of music from the nineteenth century to the present day, issues in the philosophy of musical thought (with a focus on critical theory and ecocriticism), and the epistemology of musical analysis.

  • Prof. Emile Wennekes

     is Professor of Musicology and holds a chair in Music and Media. His present research focuses on mediatizing music and the remigration of Jewish musicians. Wennekes has published on a broad range of subjects including a biography of Bernard Haitink, the reception of the music of Bach, Liszt, Mahler and Mozart, music within Second Life, conductor films, Vitaphone shorts, and contemporary music in the Netherlands.