
Dr Genevieve Arkle
BMus, MMus, PhD
Expertise
I am a lecturer and researcher in the Department of Music. My work looks primarily at music, meaning, and socio-cultural change in Austria and Germany in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Lecturer
Department of Music
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Biography
My work examines issues of intertextuality and meaning in 19th- and 20th-Century Austro-German music, specifically the works of Richard Wagner and Gustav Mahler. Most recently, my work has investigated issues of gender and sexuality in Vienna at the fin-de-siècle, focusing on the life and works of Gustav Mahler and Alma Mahler-Werfel.
I am Deputy Director and Co-Founder of the Institute of Austrian and German Music Research, Co-Founder of the Gustav Mahler Research Centre Postgraduate Forum and Team Lead for the Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion in Music Studies Network. Most recently I was appointed as a board member of the Royal Musical Association and the Society for Music Analysis, and named an Affiliate of the Black Opera Research Network.
In 2020 I was awarded the Wagner Society Young Lecturer's Prize, and was also the recipient of the University of Surrey Vice Chancellor's Award for PGR Student of the Year.
I am also committed to speaking out on issues of race and representation in Music Higher Education and I was recently accepted onto the WHEN 100 Black Women Professors Programme which helps to increase pipelines for Black Women in academia.
I am Deputy Director and Co-Founder of the Institute of Austrian and German Music Research, Co-Founder of the Gustav Mahler Research Centre Postgraduate Forum and Team Lead for the Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion in Music Studies Network. Most recently I was appointed as a board member of the Royal Musical Association and the Society for Music Analysis, and named an Affiliate of the Black Opera Research Network.
In 2020 I was awarded the Wagner Society Young Lecturer's Prize, and was also the recipient of the University of Surrey Vice Chancellor's Award for PGR Student of the Year.
I am also committed to speaking out on issues of race and representation in Music Higher Education and I was recently accepted onto the WHEN 100 Black Women Professors Programme which helps to increase pipelines for Black Women in academia.
Research interests
My research interests include:
- 19th- and 20th-Century Austrian and German Music
- Musical Hermeneutics / Intertextuality
- Gender and Sexuality in the Austro-German context
- Music and socio-cultural change
Publications
Selected publications
01/03/2024Gustav Mahler and the Crisis of Jewish Masculinity
19th-Century Music
The Turn in the Finale of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony as Allusion to Wagner’s Parsifal
Music Theory Online
Expressions of Suffering
The Wagner Journal
Recent publications
01/03/2024Gustav Mahler and the Crisis of Jewish Masculinity
19th-Century Music
The Turn in the Finale of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony as Allusion to Wagner’s Parsifal
Music Theory Online
Expressions of Suffering
The Wagner Journal