Narrating the Uncanny: The Music of Les Revenants

Edward Venn is professor of music at the University of Leeds. His research focuses on the analysis and interpretation of twentieth-century and contemporary music. He is editor of the journal Music Analysis and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Music and Meaning. He has recently coedited Thomas Adès Studies (Cambridge University Press, 2022) with Philip Stoecker and is currently completing an AHRC-funded research project on the operas of Thomas Adès.

Anna McAuley is a graduate of English and music from the University of Leeds, UK. She wrote her undergraduate thesis on the topic of the disembodied voice in the work of Shakespeare, analyzing the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2017 production of Titus Andronicus. Therein she highlighted the distinction between live theatre music and other performing genres by exploring the use of the human voice in incidental music for the stage. Her research interests include interdisciplinary study between performance and literature, phenomenology, and ecocriticism, particularly in dystopian fictions.