Lise Karin Meling

Lise Karin Meling is an Associate Professor of Music History at the Faculty of Performing Arts, University of Stavanger. Her research focuses on female composers in the 18th century, piano as a domestic instrument in 19th-century Norway, performance practice, and gender dynamics in popular music. She teaches music history and early music performance practice, and co-authored the widely used textbook "Vestens musikkhistorie". As a harpsichordist, she performs internationally with ensembles and orchestras.

• Active in academic communication through conferences, TV, radio, and popular science lectures
• Key roles in the Erasmus+ VOW project on women composers
• Editorial work for Studia Musicologica Norvegica and PlaySpace journal

Her research combines gender analysis, historiography, and cultural transmission, with recent work on subscription-based music patronage and decolonizing music education curricula. She explores intersections between domestic music practices and social change through artistic research.

Recent publications examine home music culture (2024), student-led decolonization of music history (2023), and gendered instrumental associations (2016-2019). She frequently presents at international conferences on topics spanning from 18th-century female composers to modern educational reform.