Prof Christopher Morris

Biography

Christopher Morris is a musicologist with research interests in opera, film music, critical and interdisciplinary approaches to music and music in Austro-German modernism. Born in Bangor, Co. Down, he is a graduate of the University of Toronto (BMus, MA) and the University of Leeds (PhD). He was Archivist of the Canadian Opera Company before joining University College Cork as Lecturer in Music in 1998. There he taught and supervised topics in musicology and contributed to the development of new undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the Department of Music. As a member of interdisciplinary boards in Film Studies and Theatre, he also taught and supervised music-related topics in those subjects. Christopher was appointed Professor of Music at Maynooth University in 2013.

Research Interest

Arts