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