About
Melanie is a musicologist with research and teaching interests in gender, sexuality and eroticism in music, and music of early modern Italy. Since joining University College Cork 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 is also a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Music, Gender and Identity at the University of Huddersfield. Education
Melanie holds a BMus from the University of Edinburgh and an MA and PhD from the University of Southampton. Publications
Edited Books
Melanie L. Marshall, Linda L. Carroll and Katherine A. McIver (eds.), Sexualities, Textualities, Art and Music in Early Modern Italy. Aldershot, UK and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2014.
Iddon, Martin and Melanie L. Marshall (eds.), Lady Gaga and Popular Music: Performing Gender, Fashion and Culture. New York: Routledge, 2014.
Articles and Chapters
Marshall, Melanie L. ‘Voce Bianca: Purity and Whiteness in British Early Music Vocality.’ Women and Music : A Journal of Gender & Culture, 19 (2015), 36-44.
Marshall, Melanie L. ‘Imitating the Rustic and Revealing the Noble: Masculine Power and Music at the Court of Ferrara.’ In Eroticism in Early Modern Music, ed. Bonnie Blackburn and Laurie Stras. Aldershot, UK and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2015.
Marshall, Melanie L. ‘‘Farò quel che mi piacerà’: fictional women in villotta voice resistance.’ In Sexualities, Textualities, Art and Music in Early Modern Italy, ed. Marshall, Carroll, and McIver. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2014.
Marshall, Melanie L., Linda L. Carroll and Katherine A. McIver. ‘Playing with Boundaries’ In Sexualities, Textualities, Art and Music in Early Modern Italy, ed. Marshall, Carroll and McIver. Aldershot, UK and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2014.
Marshall, Melanie L. ‘Consuming Gaga.’ In Lady Gaga and Popular Music: Performing Gender, Fashion and Culture, ed. Iddon and Marshall. New York: Routledge, 2014.
Iddon, Martin and Melanie L. Marshall. ‘Introduction.’ In Lady Gaga and Popular Music: Performing Gender, Fashion and Culture, ed. Iddon and Marshall. New York: Routledge, 2014.
Marshall, Melanie L. ‘Warriors and Musicians: Notes from the Colonna Family Archive’. Early Music, 39.2 (2011), 195-201.
Marshall, Melanie L. ‘Grateful Friends, True Friends: Gifts of Music and Poetry Associated with Girolamo Fenaruolo.’ In Uno gentile et subtile ingenio: Studies in Renaissance Music in Honour of Bonnie Blackburn, ed. M. Jennifer Bloxam, Gioia Filocamo, and Leofranc Halford-Strevens. Turnhout: Brepols, 2009.
