Charlotte Purkis 

 

Arts 

Charlotte.Purkis@winchester.ac.uk 

+44 (0) 1962 827592 

The University of Winchester
Winchester
Hampshire
SO22 4NR

Expertise

  • Socio-cultural constructions of gender and sexuality
  • Critical thinking and performance
  • Feminism
  • European Modernism in drama, dance and music
  • Postmodernism and theatre
  • Theatre history
  • Critical approaches to performance

Publications

Key Research Projects / Publications / Performances

  • 'Leader of Fashion in musical thought: the importance of Rosa Newmarch in the context of turn-of-the-century British styles of music appreciation' Nineteenth-Century British Music Studies 3 - Horton, P and Zon, B (Ashgate 2003) pp. 3-20
  • 'You might have called it beauty or poetry or passion just as well as music': Gertrude Hudson's fictional fantasies' The Idea of Music in Victorian Fiction - Fuller, S and Loessef, N (Ashgate 2004) pp. 197-254
  • 'Aesthetic explorations of personal and collective identities and their construction through 'imperfect' listening to music' 19th century Music in Britain (Leeds July 2003)
  • Musical writing and English aestheticism, or, the 'ravished pen' and the 'temperamental critic' 19th century Music in Britain (Nottingham July 2005)
  • June 2009 'Someone called Velona Pilcher', University of Hull, 'Ellen Terry and Edith Craig' conference
  • June 2009 'Thought in a glow: ultra-modernity and the Scriabinist' (1913-1931), University of London, Institute of English Studies, 'Russia in Britain: 1880-1940: Reception, Translation and the Modernist Cultural Agenda' conference
  • September 2009 'Aspiring to musicality: improvisations in aural-visual 'correspondence' in turn-of-the-century British art', Tate Britain 'The Sublime Object in Crisis?' symposium
  • October 2009 'Movement, poetry and Dionysian Modernism: Irene Mawer's experiments with 'dance words', University of Surrey, National Resource Centre for Dance, project 'Pioneer Women: early British modern dancers project', 'Moving Naturally: re-thinking dance 1900s -1930s', symposium
  • 'Telling Tales in the Realms of Ficto-criticism' (1) 'Royal Musical Association: Boundaries', University of London  July 2010; (2) University of Winchester 'Symposium on Creative and Critical Writing', November 2010
  • 'Irene Mawer's Dance Words', 'Free Verse/Free Dance', Moscow State University Russia, September 2010
  • 'The Immortality of the Hour: creative engagements in the critical reception of Rutland Boughton's music drama', Music On Stage 3, Rose Bruford College, October 2010
  • 'Velona Pilcher and Dame Ellen Terry 1926', Ellen Terry, Spheres of Influence - Cockin, K (Chatto and Pickering 2011), pp. 119-132.
  • 'Aspiring to Musicality: Improvisations in aural-visual 'correspondence' in turn-of-the-century British Art', Tate Papers 14, Autumn 2010
  • 'Velona Pilcher and her American Theatre contacts', British Association of American Studies, UCLAN Preston, April 2011
  • 'Writerly identity in early 20th century characterisations of the Diva: exploring interactions between creative practice and personality in the literary journalism of Velona Pilcher', 'The Diva', Liverpool Hope University, July 2011

Consultancy

  • National Council for Drama Training
  • Adviser on pilot accreditation process (2005-2007) and developer of training materials.
  • Quality Assurance Agency
  • Subject specialist reviewer:HE and HE in FE (Music) 2004-present
  • Auditor: IQER 2006-present

Research Interests

Criticism and performative writing; music and film; European Modernism especially British-German cultural connections