Eleanor Giraud
Professor
Music and Dance
University of Limerick
Ireland
Biography
Eleanor joined the Irish World Academy in 2016 as the Course Director of the MA in Ritual Chant and Song. Her research interests are in the areas medieval music and sources studies, in particular notation, music book production, and the liturgy of the Dominican Order. Before joining the Irish World Academy, Eleanor held the Lord Crewe Junior Research Fellowship in Music at Lincoln College, Oxford, from 2014-2016. Eleanor gained a Ph.D. (2013) and M.Phil. (2010) from the University of Cambridge, and a B.Mus. from Newcastle University (2009). Her Ph.D. thesis sought to examine the role of the music notator within the process of producing manuscripts: who would have copied the music, how the copying of music was organised, and how music notators interacted with other trades involved in book production, such as text scribes. She explored these questions through a study of liturgical manuscripts made for the Dominican convent of St-Jacques in Paris in the thirteenth century.
Research Interest
Music and Dance
