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 <UN> 250 Notes on Contributors and Australia and was principal baritone for many years with the Netherlands Opera, the Nürnberg Municipal Opera, and the Hamburg State Opera. He has sung over fifty major operatic roles, has participated in several world premieres and had frequent appearances at major European festivals in opera, oratorio and song recitals. He has published widely in the field of music and literature and is Vice-President and Editorial Board Member of The International Association for Word and Music Studies (wma), regularly giving lectures and seminars on the operatic adaptation of literature into opera. His book, Opera and the Novel, was published by Rodopi Press (Amsterdam/New York, ny) in 2005. He is working on a book: Myths of National Identity in Contemporary Australian Opera (Ashgate, 2015). Currently on the staff at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, he has served as Chair of Vocal Studies and Opera, Pro-Dean and Head of School, and Associate Dean (Research). Recent cds include a double cd of settings of Kipling ballads and Boer War songs, When the Empire Calls (abc Classics, 2005); O for a Muse of Fire: Australian Shakespeare Settings (Vox Australis, 2013); and Amy Woodforde-Finden: The Oriental Song-Cycles (Toccata Classics, 2014). ([email protected]) 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 <UN>.