Dr Amy Williamson is a Teaching Fellow in Music. She teaches across several undergraduate and postgraduate modules and is also Undergraduate Admissions Tutor for the Music Department. Her research interests include medieval English polyphony, music and EDI, and gender and sexuality in popular music.
I completed an undergraduate degree at the University of Southampton in 2008, and a Masters in 2009. In 2016, I completed a PhD under Professor Mark Everist, which was fully funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) as part of the research project Cantum pulcriorem invenire, which focused on the conductus in the thirteenth century. My thesis concentrated on English polyphony during the ‘long’ thirteenth century (c.1150-c.1350), with a particular focus on genre and repertory.
In 2017-18, I worked as a Teaching Fellow, delivering the modules Music and Comedy (HUMA3016), Research Skills 1 (MUSI6031) and Flappers to Rappers: Girl Singers in 20th Century Popular Music (MUSI2088/3090). In 2018-19, I was a Research Fellow, assisting Dr David Bretherton with his AHRC-funded project, Queer Music, Queer Theory, Queer Music Theory.
From 2019-20, I was a Teaching Associate in Musicology at University of Bristol, contributing to four co-taught undergraduate and MMus modules, and teaching the module Feminine Voices: Gender and Identity in Popular Music Culture.
From 2022, I have been working as a Teaching Fellow at the University of Southampton, where I have taught various undergraduate and postgraduate modules, and acted as departmental EDI officer.