Dr Paul Watt
BMus (Australian Catholic University), MA (Monash), PhD (Sydney)
Research Officer
Email :
paul.watt@arts.monash.edu.au
Phone : (03) 9905 3634
Fax : (03) 9905 3241
Location
: Room 107, Performing Arts Centre, Building 68, Clayton Campus
Biography
Paul Watt joined the School in 2006 and works as a Research Assistant to Margaret Kartomi. After graduating from Monash in the mid 1990s, Paul spent a decade working in academic publishing, first with Addison Wesley Longman and then Cambridge University Press, which took him to the UK where he spent 18 months as Production Editor on the music list. In 2005-6 Paul taught at the University of Melbourne: he was a tutor in Music and lecturer/course co-ordinator and tutor in the Department of English with Cultural Studies. Since joining Monash Paul has established the Australian Study Group for British Music (with Sue Cole, University of Melbourne) and also set up the School’s British Music Research Cluster. Combining his interests in print culture, nineteenth-century music and literary criticism, his research is interdisciplinary and includes a mix of both individual and collaborative projects.
Research Interests
19th-century music; musical and literary criticism (especially the 1890s); aesthetics, historiography and biography; early Victorian popular music.
Recent Publications
“‘A gigantic and popular place of entertainment”: Granville Bantock and music-making at the New Brighton Tower in the late 1890s’, Research Chronicle of the Royal Musical Association (forthcoming, June 2009): 111-66‘Ernest Newman’s The Man Liszt of 1934: reading its freethought agenda’, Context: A Journal of Music Research 31 (2006), 193-205‘The catalogue of Ernest Newman’s library: revelations about his intellectual life in the 1890s’, Script & Print 31/2 (2007), 81-103
Work in Progress
Ernest Newman: An Intellectual BiographyBawdy Songbooks of the Romantic Period (gen.ed. with Patrick Spedding)
'The historiography of Opera Criticism', in The Oxford Handbook of Opera, edited by Helen Greenwald
'Ernest Newman's draft of a Berlioz biography (1899) and it's appropriation of Emile Hennequin's style theory',
Prizes, Grants, Honours
2009: Visiting Research Fellow (June-July), Institute of Musical Research, School of Advanced Studies, University of London
2008: Monash University European Travel Grant ($6700)
2003: Special Achievement Award, Cambridge University Press UK, for ‘Exceptional Contribution’ to CUP, July–December
Consultancies, Committees and External Memberships
2009: Corresponding Member, Centre for the History of Music in Britain, the Empire and Commonwealth, University of Bristol
2009: Editorial Adviser, Cambridge Library Series, Cambridge University Press
2008: Review Committee, BMus and BA/BMus courses, Australian Catholic University
2008: Chair, Electronic Publishing Working Party, Musicological Society of Australia