Dr Delia Da Sousa Correa

Biography

I joined the English Department in 1998. Born in the UK, I grew up in New Zealand and was educated at Nelson College for Girls and at the Nelson School of Music, followed by the Universities of Canterbury (NZ), Kings College London and New College, Oxford, where I completed my D.Phil in 1993. Before joining the Open University, I taught at the University of Oxford and held a pastoral position as adviser to women students at Oriel College. I also taught briefly at the University of Worcester and as a visiting lecturer at the University of St Petersburg.

Research Interest

My research focusses on connections between literature and music. I am co-convenor of the Open University Literature and Music Research Group and have helped to organise several conferences in this field, including the biennial conference of the International Association for the Study of Word and Music (WMA) in London in August 2013. I have particular research interests in the writing of George Eliot and Katherine Mansfield. My monograph on George Eliot, Music and Victorian Culture was published in 2003. In 2009 I was the founding editor of the Katherine Mansfield Studies, an annual book series published by Edinburgh University Press. I previously edited Phrase and Subject, a collection of essays on literature and music published in 2006. I am currently editing The Edinburgh Companion to Literature and Music, a volume of 80 original research essays by literary scholars and musicologists charting relations between literature and music over nine centuries from the Middle Ages to the present day. I have supervised doctoral dissertations on interdisciplinary and literary topics and welcome applications from students wishing to undertake doctoral research in literature and music or in other nineteenth-century or modernist topics at the Open University.