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Meghan Quinlan serves as an Affiliated Researcher in the Department of Musicology at Uppsala University, Sweden. Her interdisciplinary scholarship bridges medieval musicology, literary studies, and cultural history with a focus on French and Occitan song traditions from the Middle Ages.
Her academic foundation includes:
- B.Arts.Sc. in Liberal Arts and Natural Sciences from McMaster University
- M.St. in Medieval Studies from the University of Oxford
- DPhil in Musicology from the University of Oxford
Quinlan's research specializes in the intersection of text and music in medieval song, particularly examining female-voiced contrafacta, gender representation, and historical narrative construction. As both a scholar and trained choral conductor/singer, she integrates performance practice into her methodology, sharing interpretations through her videocast 'Chanter m'estuet'. Her work reveals how medieval songs functioned as cultural artifacts that negotiated identity, power, and community.
Analysis of her 2019-2022 publications shows consistent engagement with Gautier de Coinci's miracle songs, troubadour/trouvère repertoire, and the adaptation of melodies across linguistic contexts. Key thematic threads include the semiotic potential of musical repetition, the transformation of historical figures into lyric subjects, and the reconstruction of lost performance practices. Her scholarship demonstrates rigorous interdisciplinary methodology connecting musicology with literary criticism, gender studies, and cultural anthropology.
Information regarding graduate student supervision and external research funding was not documented in available sources.
