Kate Kennedy (writer)
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| Born | 24 September 1977 Bristol, South West England, England |
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Kate Kennedy (born 24 September 1977) is a British biographer, academic and BBC broadcaster, who specialises in the literature and music of the First World War.[1] She is the Associate Director of the Oxford Centre for Life-writing at the University of Oxford.[2]
Early life and education[edit]
Born in Bristol, Kennedy attended the specialist music school, Wells Cathedral School, where she studied as a cellist. In 1996 she commenced studying Music and then English at St Catharine's College, Cambridge. Despite a severe arm injury which affected her career as a cellist, in 2000 she was awarded a scholarship to the Royal College of Music where she studied for a PgDip in advanced performance. She then completed a master's degree in twentieth century literature at King’s College, London, and freelanced as a baroque cellist in London, helping to found the orchestra Southbank Sinfonia with its founder-conductor Simon Over[3] before returning to Cambridge in 2005 where she completed a PhD at Clare Hall on the First World War poet and composer Ivor Gurney.[4]
Career[edit]
Kennedy has lectured in music and English at Girton College, Cambridge, where she received a Katherine Jex-Blake Research Fellowship as well as a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellowship.[5][6] In 2016 she became a member of the English Faculty at Oxford University, where she is Associate Director of the Oxford Centre for Life-writing at Wolfson College (founded by Professor Dame Hermione Lee in 2011), and holds a Research Fellowship in Life-Writing.[7]
Selected bibliography[edit]
- Ivor Gurney: Poet, Composer (Ivor Gurney Society Journal Special Issue, 2007)
- The First World War: Literature, Music, Memory (Routledge, 2011)
- The Silent Morning: Culture, Memory and the Armistice 1918 (Manchester UP, 2013), co-editor with Trudi Tate [8]
- Literary Britten (Boydell and Brewer, 2018) [9]
- The Fateful Voyage (play script, 2018), starring Alex Jennings[10]
- Lives of Houses (Princeton University Press, 2020), co-editor with Hermione Lee)[11]
- Dweller in Shadows: A Life of Ivor Gurney (Princeton UP, 2021)[12]
References[edit]
- ^ "Essential Classics, Music in the Great War: Austria-Hungary at War, This Week's Essential Classics Guest: Kate Kennedy - Kate Kennedy". BBC Radio 3. 20 April 2021. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
- ^ "Dr Kate Kennedy". oclw.web.ox.ac.uk.
- ^ "About us | Southbank Sinfonia". www.southbanksinfonia.co.uk.
- ^ "Clare Hall Review 2016". Issuu.
- ^ "The Year 2015". Issuu.
- ^ "Grant listings | The Leverhulme Trust". www.leverhulme.ac.uk.
- ^ "Dr Kate Kennedy". www.english.ox.ac.uk.
- ^ "Manchester University Press - The silent morning". Manchester University Press.
- ^ Kennedy, Kate, ed. (23 April 2018). "Literary Britten: Words and Music in Benjamin Britten's Vocal Works". Boydell & Brewer – via Cambridge University Press.
- ^ Kimberley, Nick (24 June 2014). "The Fateful Voyage, City of London Festival, Drapers' Hall - music". www.standard.co.uk.
- ^ "Lives of Houses". 24 March 2020 – via press.princeton.edu.
- ^ "Listing". press.princeton.edu. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
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