Committee
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Thomas Hilder, Co-founder
(Norwegian University of Science and Technology, he/him)
Danielle Sofer, Co-founder
(University of Dayton, ey/em)
I am associate professor in ethnomusicology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim. I am currently researching LGBT choirs and orchestras in London, Rome and Warsaw, exploring the transformation of queer European citizenship and transnational activism in the early 21st century. In the past I have published extensively on music and the politics of Indigeneity in Northern Europe and issues of Indigeneity and digital media. My academic, pedagogical and musical practice is deeply informed by feminist, postcolonial and queer perspectives and in particular notions of care, inclusion and political engagement. I’m committed to exploring new modes of being in the academy, challenging its established structures, and contributing to queer music making beyond the academy.
I am a media scholar, music theorist, musicologist, performer, and activist invested in intercultural ethics and sociotechnical inclusivity. A nomad by blood, generations before me moved about East of the Mediterranean, and I’ve never lived anywhere longer than 3 years. I am determined to resist those for whom equality feels like oppression. https://www.shlomitsofer.com/
Marie Bennett (University of Winchester, she/her)
I received my PhD from the University of Winchester (UK) in November 2021. My thesis critically examined readings of queer performance in a number of mainstream post-Production Code/post-Stonewall Hollywood film musicals released between 1970 and 1980. My major areas of interest and research are film musicals, music in film, queer studies, popular music of the 1960s-1980s, and the Eurovision Song Contest.
George Haggett (Oxford University) (he/him)
I am a PhD student at Oxford University, working on medievalism in contemporary opera. My research pays particular attention to kinships between pre- and postmodern understandings of embodiment and ambiguity, often within contexts of religion, sexuality, and violence. My writing beyond medievalism studies has included queer hagiography in Disney’s Coco, queer transcription in Call Me by Your Name, and conceptions of the trans body in terms of phenomenology and the music of ANOHNI. I have also worked for the university chaplaincy at King’s College, London, and have enduring interests in both queer theology and LGBTQ+ pastoral care and mentorship.
Flo Toch (University of Leeds, they/them)
I am a Leeds-based MA Critical and Cultural Studies graduate student with an interest in popular culture, queerness, and intersections between the individual and the collective. Find out more about me at www.flotochdrums.com
Shirley Wick (Institute for Musicology and Music Education, University of Koblenz)
I am a PhD student working on the gendered perception of singing voices. My musicological interests range from voice studies to queertheoretical approaches and the social/political functions of music
Jaime Diaz (Doctoral Candidate, The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and The University of St Andrews)
I am based in Moscow, ID and currently finishing my PhD titled A violent accumulation of (dis)identifications: the impact of white affectivity on the practices of seven brown composers. Follow my work here: https://diazsounds.wixsite.com/my-site/
Advisory Board
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Shzr Ee Tan (Royal Holloway, University of London), Senior Advisory Officer (she/her)
Richard Witts (Edge Hill University), Senior Advisory Officer
Freya Jarman (University of Liverpool), Senior Advisory Officer (she/her)
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Many thanks to our previous committee members: Anthony R. Green; David Bretherton; Rachel Cowgill; Peter Connolly-Davis, Ryan Persadie.