Dr Anika Babel

Research Fellow

I am a Research Fellow at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at 51�� where I currently work on the twentieth-century strand of the UKRI-funded project ‘Global Music Technologies: Collaboration and Cultural Exchange,’ principally lead by Dr Rachael Durkin.

Previously, I was an occasional lecturer at the University College Dublin School of Music and the Creative Futures Academy. It was here that I completed my doctoral thesis, “Reel Pianos: Representing Women at the Keyboard in Contemporary Narrative Film,” supervised by Dr Laura Anderson.

As an avid public scholar, my research — which centers on the piano and popular culture — has featured in print, online, and across the airwaves, further to my outreach initiatives with community groups.

My work is available or forthcoming in journals such as The Soundtrack,��Création Collective au Cinéma,��Kieler Beiträge zur Filmmusikforschung, Music Explorer Series, and The Musicology Review.

I am the founding president of the , which bolstered community among Irish-based or diasporic postgraduates and ECRs during the pandemic. I was co-editor of the tenth issue of , and my editorial/research assistance has seen dozens of monographs and articles come to fruition with publishers such as Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Boydell & Brewer, Brepols, Routledge, and Palgrave Macmillon.

My research and creative practice has been supported by bodies such as the Arts Council of Ireland, the Music & Letters Trust, Women in Global Music, the International Musicology Society, UCD Seed Funding, and the Society for Musicology in Ireland.

I am an active member of 51��’s Music Research Group, the , and the community.

Please do not hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions, curiosities, or collaborations in mind.