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Prof Emma Sutton is a Professor of English at the University of St Andrews, affiliated with the School of English. She holds a British Academy-funded PhD from the University of Cambridge and has held roles at Cambridge and Edinburgh Universities before joining St Andrews in 2003. She is an Associate of the UK’s Centre for Pacific Studies and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2024. Her research focuses on musical-literary relations across the 19th–21st centuries, with specialties in Decadence, modernist writing (e.g., Virginia Woolf), and music’s role in colonial Oceania.
Education: BA English (Exeter), MA English (Leeds), PhD (Cambridge). Research projects include the Leverhulme-funded 'Hearing the Pacific: Robert Louis Stevenson and Musical Cultures in Colonial Oceania' (2025–2027), and collaborations with the National University of Samoa on Sāmoan customary music. She co-founded the AHRC-funded Virginia Woolf and Music project with pianist Lana Bode.
- Key Awards: Royal Society of Edinburgh Fellowship (2024), Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship (2025–2027)
- Supervised over 25 doctoral students in literature, musicology, and cultural studies.
Research interests include interdisciplinary studies of music and literature, colonial Pacific studies, and Woolfian modernism. Her recent work explores Robert Louis Stevenson’s musical collaborations with Indigenous Pacific musicians in the late 19th century.
Public engagement includes BBC Proms collaborations, lectures at the Moscow Conservatoire, and co-curating the Tate Britain/Musée d'Orsay Aubrey Beardsley exhibition (2020).
