Dr Alison Hood

Biography

Alison is a first-class honours and PhD graduate of Trinity College Dublin. During her time at Trinity she was awarded the Taylor Entrance Exhibition (1992), the Home Hewson Scholarship (1996), the Trinity College Postgraduate Award (1999), and the Government of Ireland Scholarship (1999). She was elected Scholar of Trinity in 1994. She lectured part-time in Trinity from 1997 to 2003 and was appointed visiting lecturer at the University of Oregon for the autumn term of 2001. She began lecturing in Maynooth University in 2003 and was appointed Acting Head of Department in 2012–2013. Her research interests lie in the area of analysis and performance, particularly in piano music from the nineteenth century. Recent publications include: ‘Structural Coupling in the Coda of Chopin’s Barcarolle’, in Artur Szklener (ed.), Chopin 1810–2010: Ideas—Interpretations—Influence, (Warsaw, forthcoming); ‘Shared Compositional Strategies in Chopin’s Nocturnes Opus 48’, in Irish Musical Studies 11 (2014); and ‘Ambiguity of Tonal Meaning in Chopin’s Prelude Opus 28, No. 22’, Music Theory Online (2012). Her monograph Interpreting Chopin: Analysis and Performance was published by Ashgate in April 2014. In addition, she has developed her interest in pedagogical research and has built up research expertise in large group pedagogies, student engagement and the assessment process and has presented and published the results of this research. Her current research is interdisciplinary in nature, focusing on performance and performative analysis and the opportunities that can emerge when Music as a discipline interacts with other parts of the Academy. She currently co-convenes the research cluster ‘Performance, Practice & Interactivity’ with Dr Antonio Cascelli. Alison was appointed Dean of Teaching and Learning at Maynooth University in February 2016.

Research Interest

Music