Notes on Contributors
Mary Breatnach is an Honorary Fellow in the School of European Languages and Cultures at the University of Edinburgh where she lectured in French from 1993 to 2010. A graduate in Modern Languages, she studied the viola in London (Royal Academy of Music) and Detmold (Hochschule für Musik) and made her career as an orchestral and chamber music player before completing a PhD in the French department at Edinburgh and deciding to return to academe. Her par- ticular research interest is the relationship between literature and music in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century France. She has published widely in the field and is the author of Boulez and Mallarmé: A Study in Poetic Influence, published by Ashgate in 1996. ([email protected])
Peter Dayan is Professor of Word and Music Studies at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of two books on the relationship between music and the other arts, notably in France, in the 19th and 20th centuries: Music Writing Literature, from Sand via Debussy to Derrida (Ashgate, 2006); and Art as Music, Music as Poetry, Poetry as Art, from Whistler to Stravinsky and Beyond (Ashgate, 2011). His current research concerns the aspects of Zurich Dada which escape words (and have therefore largely escaped academic scrutiny), including Dada dance and Dada costume; he plans to resurrect two Dada soirées in performance for the Dada soirée centenary in 2017. ([email protected])
Axel Englund is a Wallenberg Academy Fellow in the Humanities at Stockholm University, Sweden. He is the author of Still Songs: Music In and Around the Poetry of Paul Celan (2012) and co-editor of the volume Languages of Exile: Migration and Multilingualism in Twentieth-Century Literature (2013). His research centres on twentieth-century poetry and the interplay of music and literature. In 2011, he was an Anna Lindh Fellow at Stanford University, and he has held visiting scholarships at Columbia University and Freie Universität Berlin. ([email protected])
Michael Halliwell studied music and literature at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, and at the London Opera Centre with Otakar Kraus, as well as with Tito Gobbi in Florence. He has sung in Europe, North America, South Africa
Karl Katschthaler teaches literature and cultural history and is head of the Department of German Literature at the University of Debrecen (Hungary). His main research interests are multi-, trans- and intermediality in literature, music and theatre and the history of modernity. Recent publications: Latente Theatralität und Offenheit: Zum Verhältnis von Text, Musik und Szene in Werken von Alban Berg, Franz Schubert und György Kurtág (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2012); Gustav Mahler – Arnold Schönberg und die Wiener Moderne, edited by Karl Katschthaler (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2013). (karl.katschthaler@arts .unideb.hu)
Lawrence Kramer is Distinguished Professor of English and Music at Fordham University, the edi- tor of 19th Century Music, and the author of numerous books on music, most recently including Expression and Truth: On the Music of Knowledge (2012), Interpreting Music (2010), and Why Classical Music Still Matters (2007), all from University of California Press. He is also a prizewinning composer whose music has been performed through the United States and Europe. Works recently performed include “Clouds, Wind, Stars” for String Quartet (which won the 2013 Composers Concordance “Generations” Prize), A Short History (of the 20th Century) for Voice and Percussion (Krakow, 2012; New York 2014), Pulsation for Piano Quartet (Ghent, 2013), Songs and Silences to Poems by