Dr Ellen Hooper

Dr Ellen Hooper has spent the past 20 years in and around universities and conservatoires, both in the UK and Australia. She has experience in teaching, research, and higher education strategy, and is especially interested in the value of bringing radically different disciplinary expertise together to foster new points of intersection, new practices, and new ways of looking at the world around us. In part, this has been shaped by working closely with international climate researchers and global climate change organisations, and Ellen is particularly interested in the notion of 'risk' in its multiple guises.

Ellen’s Routledge monograph explores emergent, unwritten practices in musical performance, ‘useful fictions’ in analysis, and the relationship between music and visual art. As well as a musicologist, Ellen is an experienced musician, and has performed in some of the world’s most well-known classical music festivals and venues.

Ellen has designed and delivered undergraduate courses in musicology, given guest lectures, and served as an external examiner for postgraduate level musical performances. Her pedagogical approach is informed by her deep commitment to cross-disciplinary thinking and critical inquiry.