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Dr Danijela Spiric Beard
(she/her)
BA, MPhil, PhD
Teams and roles for Danijela Spiric Beard
Examination Supervisor
Academic and Student Support Services
Communications Assistant
Communications and Marketing
Communications and Events Officer
Overview
As the Communications and Events Officer I oversee all aspects of Jomec's internal communications, events planning and delivery, as well as Student Voice and student experience initiatives.
Research
I co-edited the monograph Made in Yugoslavia: Studies in Popular Music (Routledge) and a special issue on music and socialism for the journal twentieth-century music (Cambridge University Press). I have published on Yugoslav film music, popular music and politics, and the composer Josip Slavenski.
Teaching
I have over ten years experience of teaching UG, PG and CPE courses on music and languages. My recent courses at Cardiff have included:
The Golden Age of the Ballets Russes
The Story of Opera
Romeo and Juliet: the Opera, the Musical and the Ballet
From Revolutions to the Avant-Garde: Opera in Russia and Eastern Europe
Music and Art in fin-de-siècle Europe
Biography
I read Music and Russian at Durham University (BA and MPhil), and obtained a PhD from Cardiff University with a thesis on Yugoslav Identity in Music and the Case of Josip Štolcer Slavenski.
My specialisms include music and politics in the Western Balkans, opera, and popular and film music.
I act as the international reviews editor for the journal Muzikološki Zbornik/Musicological Annual, and co-convenor of BASEES-REEMS (the Study Group for Russian and East European Music within the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies).
I was a Lecturer in Music at Nottingham University (2013−15), and an Early Career Fellow at the Institute of Musical Research (Royal Holloway, University of London (2016−17)).