Elizabeth Falade

Dr. Elizabeth Falade is an Assistant Professor of Popular Music, Sound & Media Cultures at the University of Groningen's Faculty of Arts. Her research focuses on race, gender, sexuality, and marginalized communities in popular music, particularly Black Queer women artists. She is a Black queer feminist DJ and ethnomusicologist.

Education:

• BA History, SOAS, University of London (2017)
• MA Popular Music Research, Goldsmiths, University of London (2018)
• PhD Gender Studies & Ethnomusicology, SOAS, University of London (2023)

Research Interests: Dr. Falade explores how alternative R&B challenges traditional Black musical aesthetics and cultural consciousness across the Black Atlantic. She disrupts erasures of marginalized voices in music studies through intersectional frameworks.

Teaching: Courses include 'Mediality to Inter-Mediality', 'Media, Materials, Makers', 'Popular Music, Politics and Resistance', and 'Intro to Audiovisual Arts B'.

Labs/Teams: Engaged with the Media, Cultural Industries & Society department at the Faculty of Arts, though specific lab affiliations are not detailed.