Sophie Fuller

Qualifications and Educational Background

Sophie studied music at King’s College, London University where she completed her doctoral thesis on ‘Women Composers during the British Musical Renaissance, 1880-1918’.  

Teaching Experiences 

Sophie’s teaching experience includes ten years of lecturing at the University of Reading.  

Creative Output 

• Author, The Pandora Guide to Women Composers: Britain and the United States, 1629-present (1994) 
• Co-editor / contributor, Queer Episodes in Music and Modern Identity (2002) with Lloyd Whitesell 

• Co-editor / contributor, The Idea of Music in Victorian Fiction (2004) with Nicky Losseff 
• Co-editor, Music, Life, and Changing Times: Selected Correspondence between British Composers Elizabeth Maconchy and Grace Williams, 1927-77 (2020) with Jenny Doctor 
• Contributor, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians 
• Contributor, The Oxford Companion to Music 
• Contributor, The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 

• Contributor, Women Composers: Music through the Ages 
• Contributor, Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart 
• She has been a frequent contributor to various television and radio programmes as well as giving conference papers in the UK, the USA, France, Germany, Italy and Australia.