Dr Lorraine Byrne Bodley

Biography

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. Dr Byrne Bodley teaches graduate and postgraduate seminars on musicology, and the music of Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Brahms and Wolf. She has also held Visiting Professorships and research fellowships at the University of Leipzig (2010) and the University of Tübingen (2014). Dr Byrne Bodley is known internationally for her work on Schubert, on Goethe and Music and on German Song, on all of which she has published prolifically and lectured internationally (in German and in English) in Germany, Belgium, Russia, Canada, USA, UK and Ireland. She has published 11 books including: A Community of the Imagination: Seóirse Bodley’s Goethe’s Settings (Carysfort Press, 2013); Goethe and Zelter: Musical Dialogues (Ashgate, 2009) which was named an Outstanding Academic Book of 2010 by Choice and has been widely acclaimed as an ‘excellent translation’ and ‘a major contribution’ to musicology and Goethean studies (Music and Letters, The Schubertian, Choice, Modern Language Review, German Quarterly). Publications reflecting her interest in Music and Culture have appeared in German Quarterly, Music and Letters; The Musical Times Musiktheorie, Nineteenth Century Music Review, Oxford German Studies; Publications of the English Goethe Society. Forthcoming publications include two volumes of essays (co-edited with Julian Horton): Schubert’s Late Music: History, Theory, Style (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and Rethinking Schubert (Oxford University Press, 2015). She is currently writing a new biography on Schubert which has been commissioned by Yale University Press.

Research Interest

Music