Welcome

The study of connections between music and literature has become a flourishing area of international research activity. The Open University’s Literature and Music Research Group aims to encourage wide-ranging interdisciplinary study of literature and music and to foster a research community in this area within and beyond the university.

Members of the Research Group publish in the interdisciplinary field, organise and participate in international conferences and offer graduate supervision. They also engage in Knowledge Transfer activity and events including consultancies for broadcasting and the performing arts.

News

Readers and Listeners Resource

A web-based Reading and Listening resource is under development. Thanks go to Natalie Burton for her work in developing the initial prototype and to Francesca Benatti for developing this as a web-based asset. The resource was available at the OpenARC Research Festival on 13^th May.

Research Group members Delia da Sousa Correa, Francesca Benatti, Joanne Reardon and Natalie Burton will deliver a panel to discuss the potential for this resource at the ‘English Shared Futures’ Conference in York on 4th July. The outline for the panel session is below. (This topic speaks to one of the advertised conference themes: ‘English with… Who does English Studies share its futures with and why?’ (other genres, forms, and media).)