Rim Irscheid

Dr Rim Irscheid is a Researcher and Postdoctoral Research Associate at King's College London, affiliated with the Department of Music and the Department of Interdisciplinary Humanities. She leads the UKRI-funded project 'Beyond 1932: Rethinking Musical Modernity in the Middle East and North Africa', organizing artist residencies with practitioners from Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, and Iraqi-Kurdistan. Her work bridges ethnographic research and curatorial practice, focusing on experimental music, archival interventions, and curation ethics. She teaches sound studies, critical theory, and ethnomusicology at King's College London and has previously lectured at Columbia University and Central Saint Martins.

Education: PhD in Ethnomusicology & Curatorial Practice (King's College London, 2020-2023), MA in Musicology (University of Oxford, 2018), BA in Musicology and Psychology (University of Heidelberg, 2017).

Research explores emotional labour in creative industries, diaspora migration narratives, and anti-Arab racism in curation. She advises institutions on diversity-sensitive curatorial practices. Selected grants include the BFE Fieldwork Grant (2021).

Publications include analyses of German world music, Berlin soundscapes, and curatorial activism. She co-organizes civic initiatives for diaspora musicians and engages in policy dialogues about migrantised musicians' working conditions.