I welcome applications for doctoral and masters study in my areas of specialism: the 18th century, opera, 20th- and 21st-century country-house opera, nationalism, identity politics.  Past and present doctoral students' topics include:

• Discourses of Identity in Contemporary East Asian Émigré Composers: Chen Yi, Unsuk Chin and Karen Tanaka
• The tunebooks of J. B. Malchair, Oxford c.1770-1812
• Italian opera set in Britain in the early 19th century
• Myth Ascendant: An Investigation into the North American Celebrity Politics of Glenn Gould, 1932-1982
• The nineteenth-century broadside ballad in context
• Octave Flutes in England, 1660-1800