Professor Isabella Van Elferen

Biography

I am Professor of Music, Director of the Visconti Studio, and Director of Research of the School of Performing and Screen Studies. I publish on music philosophy, Gothic theory and subcultures, film and TV music, video game music, and baroque sacred music. My books are Gothic Music: The Sounds of the Uncanny (2012), Mystical Love in the German Baroque: Theology - Poetry - Music (2009), the editor of Nostalgia or Perversion? Gothic Rewriting from the Eighteenth Century until the Present Day (2007), and, with Jeffrey Weinstock, Goth Music: From Sound to Subculture (2015). My Sounds of the Uncanny won the Alan Lloyd Smith prize for best book in Gothic Criticism 2011-2013

Research Interest

  Musicology, Music philosophy, Gothic criticism and subculture