Sophie Fuller

Sophie Fuller is a musicologist and writer on music. Her research interests centre around gender, sexuality and music in Britain in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries and she has published widely on women’s engagement with music and music making. Author of The Pandora Guide to Women Composers (1994), Sophie has recently edited, with Jenny Doctor, Music, Life, and Changing Times: Selected Correspondence between British Composers Elizabeth Maconchy and Grace Williams, 1927-77 (2020) as well as contributing to The Cambridge Companion to Women in Music since 1900 (2021), The Routledge Handbook of Women’s Work in Music (2022) and The Cambridge Companion to Women Composers (2023).

Sophie studied music at King’s College, London University where she completed her doctoral thesis on ‘Women Composers during the British Musical Renaissance, 1880-1918’.  Her teaching experience includes ten years of lecturing at the University of Reading. 

Creative output
Author, The Pandora Guide to Women Composers: Britain and the United States, 1629-present (1994)
Co-editor / contributor, Queer Episodes in Music and Modern Identity (2002) with Lloyd Whitesell
Co-editor / contributor, The Idea of Music in Victorian Fiction (2004) with Nicky Losseff
Co-editor, Music, Life, and Changing Times: Selected Correspondence between British Composers Elizabeth Maconchy and Grace Williams, 1927-77 (2020) with Jenny Doctor
Contributor, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
Contributor, The Oxford Companion to Music
Contributor, The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Contributor, Women Composers: Music through the Ages
Contributor, Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart
She has been a frequent contributor to various television and radio programmes as well as giving conference papers in the UK, the USA, France, Germany, Italy and Australia.