NUIM Department of Music
Dr Lorraine Byrne Bodley
Contact Details:
Room 120 Logic House, South Campus
Tel: (+353 1) 708 6472
Email: lorraine.byrnebodley@nuim.ie
Research Specialisms include:
- Germany: 18th and 19th-century
- Comparative Literature
- Music and Text
- Late 18th/ Early 19th Century German Opera, Singspiele, Melodrama
- 18th and 19th Century Song
- Music of Weimar Classicism
- Translation Studies
Biography:
Lorraine Byrne Bodley holds a PhD in Music and in German from University College Dublin, and has completed postdoctoral studies in German at Trinity College Dublin (2001-03) and further postdoctoral studies in Music at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth (2003-04). Awards include an IRCHSS Post-Doctoral Scholarship (2001-03); a DAAD scholarship (2002) and the Goethe Prize of the English Goethe Society (2001).
Dr Byrne Bodley is known internationally for her work on Schubert, on Goethe and Music and on German Song, on all of which she has lectured internationally (in German and in English) in Germany, Belgium, Russia, Canada, USA, UK and Ireland. She is active in the promotion of unknown works in Ireland, Germany and Canada, among them: Claudine von Villa Bella: Goethe’s Singspiel set by Franz Schubert; Anna Amalia’s setting of Goethe’s Erwin und Elmire and Eberwein’s setting of Goethe’s melodrama, Proserpina. More recently, she has written on the music of her husband, Seóirse Bodley.
Dr Byrne Bodley has published 9 books and has contributed to leading journals including Music and Letters and Nineteenth Century Music Review. Recent books include: Goethe and Zelter: Musical Dialogues (Ashgate, 2009); The Unknown Schubert (Ashgate, 2008); A Hazardous Melody of Being: Seoirse Bodley’s Song Cycles on the Poems of Micheal O’Siadhail (Carysfort Press, 2008) and Proserpina: Goethe’s Melodrama with Music by Carl Eberwein (Carysfort Press, 2007).