The University of Sheffield
Department of Music

Dr Dominic McHugh

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Department of Music
The University of Sheffield
Jessop Building
34 Leavygreave Road
Sheffield
S3 7RD

Tel: +44 (0) 114 222 0487
Fax: +44 (0) 114 222 0469

d.mchugh@sheffield.ac.uk

Biography

Dr Dominic McHugh was appointed Lecturer in Musicology in September 2011. He is a scholar of the American musical theatre and the Hollywood musical, with additional research interests in the history of opera and opera theory (especially Verdi), performance practice and historiography. His book on Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady, entitled Loverly: The Life and Times of My Fair Lady, will be published by Oxford University Press in 2012. He has written seven articles for the New Grove Dictionary of American Music (on Meredith Willson, Burton Lane, Jule Styne, the Marx Brothers, Michael Stewart, Peter Stone and Harold Arlen) and is currently working on an edited volume of the letters of Alan Jay Lerner for OUP, as well as critical monographs on Jule Styne and The Music Man and an article on ‘lateness’ in The Sound of Music. At Sheffield, he teaches the first-year history module, a module on the Hollywood Musical and the postgraduate research methods module.

He was born in Lancashire. In 2005, he graduated in Music (BMus) from King's College, London University, where he achieved first class honours and was awarded the Purcell Prize for the student with the highest marks in the final year. He then completed the MMus at King's (with an AHRC award), specialising in historical musicology, and graduated with distinction in 2006. He then completed his PhD at King’s, on Lerner and Loewe’s My Fair Lady, in September 2009 (again fully-funded by the AHRC). He has also lectured on topics such as the Broadway Musical, Mozart and Verdi as part of courses in the Department of Music at King's since 2006, and was nominated for a KCL Teaching Excellence Award. He has led several courses at the Benslow Music Trust in Hitchin, has presented a screening of My Fair Lady at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, introduced performances of Alan Jay Lerner’s The Day Before Spring and Coco at Sadler's Wells, written articles and reviews for The Wagner Journal and Eighteenth-Century Music, programme notes for productions at Opera Holland Park and liner notes for numerous CD releases. He is also the owner and founder of the music review website MusicalCriticism.com.

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