Steering Group

Chair: Dr Hannah Scott, Newcastle University

Hannah Scott is a cultural historian working on popular songs about disease, public health, & medicine from Paris & London in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her research interests more broadly embrace music, dance, performance, urban life, and popular culture, especially in nineteenth-century France.

Dr James Kennaway, University of Groningen

James Kennaway is a historian specializing in the history of medicine, cultural history, and the medical humanities. He has written extensively on the relationship between music and medicine, notably in his book Bad Vibrations.

Professor Josephine Hoegaerts, University of Amsterdam

Josephine Hoegaerts specializes in modern European culture after 1800, particularly in the fields of cultural history and literature. Her research focuses on the histories and legacies of voice training, vocal health and oral performances as social and political practice.

Dr Fraser Riddell, Durham University

Fraser Riddell is a lecturer in Literary Medical Humanities. He works on gender, sexuality and embodied experience in nineteenth and early-twentieth century Britain, including the meanings of spatial, temporal and material encounters with music.

Dr Wiebke Thormählen, Royal Northern College of Music

Wiebke Thormählen researches how different social groups have engaged in a variety of musical practices at home and in public: performing, teaching, collecting, arranging, discussing and patronizing music. She investigates music through its practices, its material objects and its narratives of emotion and well-being.

Dr Andrea Korenjak, University of Vienna

Andrea Korenjak is a musicologist, psychologist, educationalist, and flautist. Her present research interests focus on the history of music therapeutic ideas, both in Western culture and in the Arabic-Islamic cultural sphere.