Jane Pettegree

Jane Pettegree serves as Head of Curriculum for Music at the University of St Andrews' Music Centre and holds an Honorary Research Fellowship in the School of English. She coordinates first-year modules in musicology, words and music, and ethnomusicology while contributing to Scottish music instruction, and collaborates with the Schools of English, Modern Languages, and Classics on interdisciplinary courses exploring music-rhetoric and music-drama connections.

Her academic foundation includes a Doctorate from the University of St Andrews (awarded 2009), focusing on early English drama, which culminated in the monograph Foreign and Native on the English Stage, 1588-1611 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).

Dr. Pettegree's research spans early modern English drama, performance studies, and opera, with specific expertise in metaphor-performance dynamics of national identity, legal rhetoric in Renaissance plays, and British reception of early opera. She pioneers interdisciplinary performance methodologies, exemplified by projects linking Newton's optics with synaesthesia in opera and environmental themes in Baroque repertoire.

As co-founder of the St Andrews Opera company (2009), she has directed landmark productions including Purcell's Dido and Aeneas (2009), Eccles/Congreve's The Judgement of Paris (2011), and Handel's Acis and Galatea (2013). Her innovative portfolio integrates student collaboration in projects like Gluck's Iphigenie in Tauride (2015) and Newton-inspired opera reconstructions (2018), using performance as a vehicle for public research dissemination.