Jeanice Brooks

Professor Jeanice Brooks is a Professor of Music at the University of Southampton, specializing in cultural music history with research interests in Renaissance music, interwar France, music and gender, and domestic music in 1800s Britain. She holds a PhD in musicology and French literature. Her current work focuses on At Home with Music: Sounding the Domestic in Georgian Britain, supported by an AHRC grant (2017-2021), exploring music’s role in domestic material culture and heritage interpretation. She co-curated exhibitions at Boughton House and the Museum of Sydney, and leads the Sound Heritage network, fostering collaboration between academia and heritage sectors.

Her research includes projects on Nadia Boulanger, early modern music, and domestic music practices. She has published extensively, including Courtly Song in Late Sixteenth-Century France (2000), which won the Roland H Bainton Prize, and co-edited volumes like Nadia Boulanger and Her World (2020). Teaching includes early music courses, Jane Austen’s Playlist, and a new module Sounding the Museum for interdisciplinary students. She supervises up to ten PhD students annually, focusing on music history from the 16th to 20th centuries.

Professor Brooks is affiliated with the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Culture and the Southampton Centre for Nineteenth-Century Research. Her work integrates musicology with literary and material culture studies, emphasizing interdisciplinary approaches and public engagement through heritage projects.