Professor Lisa Colton PhD FHEA FRHistS MCMI

Research Overview

Lisa's research interests are wide ranging, including medieval and renaissance music, pop music, the relationship between music and gender, and twentieth-century British music. She co-edited two books published in 2022: Music and Liturgy in Medieval Britain and Ireland (with Ann Buckley, Cambridge University Press), and Female-Voice Song and Women's Musical Agency in Medieval Europe (with Anna Grau Schmidt, Brill). Her monograph, Angel Song: Medieval English Music in History (Routledge, 2017) offered a reappraisal of the historiography of English music, including the biography and career of 15th-century musician John Dunstaple. Lisa's research publications are mainly situated in medieval studies, and include articles on sources, musical analysis, and medievalism in journals such as Plainsong and Medieval Music, Journal of the Royal Musical Association, and Music and Letters. She is also the Reviews Editor for the Oxford University Press journal Early Music, a member of council for the Plainsong and Medieval Music Society, and part of the pre-1500 polyphony committee for Early English Church Music (British Academy). Lisa is currently working on 15th-century musical culture, including sources, musicians, and patronage associated with London, St Albans, and Whitby.