About
Shauna Louise Caffrey is a PhD student and Irish Research Council Postgraduate Scholar at the department of Music, University College Cork. Her research focuses on the relationship between witchcraft, magic and music on the seventeenth-century stage. She was the recipient of the Mahaffy Memorial Prize from Trinity College Dublin in 2017 for her original research into the origins and appearance of witchcraft in Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, and later completed her MA in Music and Cultural History at UCC. She is founding member of experimental music group Analog On, and performs regularly as a dancer. Her other research interests include gender in popular music, film music, creative practice, and opera. Education
B.A. Music, Trinity College Dublin, 2013-2017.
M.A. Music and Cultural History, University College Cork, 2017-2018.
Publications
Caffrey, Shauna Louise. 2018. “Mother, Monstrous: Motherhood, Grief, and the Supernatural in Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s Médée.” Irish Gothic Journal (17): 4-209.
Memberships
Society of Musicology in Ireland
