Barbara Kelly#
| Membership Number: | 5547 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | MUSICOLOGY & ART HISTORY |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.rncm.ac.uk/people/barbara-kelly |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-6551-9386 |
| Twitter: | @BarbaraKelly8 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2015 - present Director of Research and Professor of Musicology, Royal Northern College of Music
- 2015 - present Visiting Professor, Keele University
- 2014 Faculty Research Director, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Keele University
- 2012 Head of Humanities Research, Research Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Keele University
- 2008 Professor of Musicology, Keele University
- 2002 Senior Lecturer in Music
- 1995 Lecturer in Music, Keele University
- 1993 Lecturer in Music and Senior Course Tutor, University College Scarborough
Fields of Scholarship
- 1870 - 1939 French music and culture
- Music and the arts in interwar France
- Debussy, Ravel, Milhaud, Les Six
- Music and cultural and religious identity
- Nationalism, Internationalism and transnationalism in music and the arts
- Role of European cultural institutions in peacemaking
- Artistic responses to the First World War
- Music criticism and the role of the press
- Reception of European music in Britain
- European concert life
Honours and Awards
- 2020 Recognition of outstanding contribution to the Arts and Humanities Research Council Peer Review College
- 2020 Invited to continue as Strategic, International and Academic Member of the Peer Review College of the Arts and Humanities Research Council Peer Review College
- 2019 Elected first women President of the Royal Musical Association
- 2019 Invited member of the Scientific Advisory Board of IReMUS (Institut de recherche en musicologie, France)
- 2017 Strategic, International and Academic member of the AHRC Peer Review College
- 2016 Professeur invité, Université de Paris Sorbonne
- 2015 Visiting Professor, Keele University
- 2015 Elected Vice President of the Royal Musical Association
- 2013 - 2017 Member of the Editorial Board of Twentieth-Century Music
- 2013 - 2016 UK representative on the Royal Musical Association Publications Committee for the Journal of the Royal Musical Association
- 2013 - 2016 International member of the Revue de musicologie, comité de lecture
- 2012 Member of the Editorial Board of Transposition: Musique et sciences sociales
- 2012 Member of the AHRC Peer-Review College
- 2008 ff Keynote speaker invitations, recently at Princeton and Melbourne
- 2006 - present International Steering Group Member of AHRC International Network: Francophone Music Criticism (FMC)
- 2008 Collaborator with the Observatoire interdisciplinaire de création et de recherche en musique, Université de Montréal
- 2004 - 2007 Member of Council of the Royal Musical Association
