Dr Lorraine Byrne Bodley

Biography

Lorraine Byrne Bodley holds a PhD in Music and in German from University College Dublin (2000), and is the first woman in Ireland to be conferred with a DMUS in Musicology, a higher doctorate on published work (NUI, 2012). Major grants and awards for her research on Schubert, on Goethe and Music, include a Gerda Henkel Foundation scholarship (2014); two DAAD Senior Academic’s Awards (2014 and 2010); an Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship (2001-03) and the Goethe Prize of the English Goethe Society (2001). She is an invited Member of the Internationale Schubert-Gesellschaft (Tübingen and Vienna). In 2015 she was elected to The Royal Irish Academy and President of the Society for Musicology in Ireland.

Research Interest

Music