Amy Parker

Title: 0.5 Lecturer

Email: a.parker@napier.ac.uk

Subject: Music

Phone: 0131 455 6029

Amy Parker began her undergraduate studies in music at Trinity College, Dublin before returning to Glasgow to complete a degree in Applied Music in 2004, graduating with 1st Class Honours and winning the Alexander Stone Award for Excellence in Dissertation.She completed an MMus in Musicology (2005) and an AHRC-funded PhD in English Literature and Music at the University of Glasgow (2011).

Her doctoral research, ‘Towards a Poetics of Criticism: Adornoian Negativity and the Experiential in the Essays and Musical Marginalia of Virginia Woolf’ was an interdisciplinary study of Woolf’s non-fictional writing about music. She has research interests in Critical Theory and Continental philosophy, Modernist literature and aesthetics, Popular Culture and the philosophy of criticism, and she is also interested in performative and creative writing.

Prior to joining Napier in 2009, she worked as a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of Glasgow. In 2006, she was chosen by the British Council as one of six young critics from the UK to take part in a cultural exchange with writers from the Middle East, In 2008, she was awarded the Musica Brittanica Louise Dyer Award for Research for her work on Woolf.  She has professional experience as a freelance writer and music critic, and in 2009, wrote a libretto for Scottish Opera’s Five:15 series.

Publications:

Parker, A., ‘Time Past: The value of remembrance in aesthetic experience’ in Managing Creativity: Exploring the Paradox eds. Barbara Townley and Nic Beech (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010)

Conference Papers:

‘Roland Barthes' Mythologies and the Pop Video' –University of California Santa Barbara, California,2006

'I Am My Body – A Phenomenology of Listening' – University of Liverpool, 2006 and RMA
Aesthetics Study Day, University of Glasgow, 2006

Time Past: The Value of Remembrance in Aesthetic Experience RSAMD, Capitalising on Creativity study day, May, 2007

The Last Word: Music criticism and the violence of language, Edinburgh University PhD students conference, May, 2007, and Music As/Or Right Action, University of East Anglia, June 2007

Virginia Woolf and The Essay, University of Glasgow, Soundthought Postgraduate Show, 2007

‘Creative Writing Piece no.1’ as part of ‘“To the writing-table” (A room of one’s own): Glasgow Creative Writers’, Contradictory Woolf, The 21st Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf, June 2011