Kate Kennedy (writer)

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Kate Kennedy
Born (1977-09-24) 24 September 1977 (age 47)
Bristol, South West England, England
Occupation
  • Biographer
  • academic
  • broadcaster
NationalityBritish
Education
Website
drkatekennedy.com

Kate Kennedy (born 24 September 1977) is a British biographer, academic and BBC broadcaster, who specialises in the literature and music of the First World War. [1] She is the Associate Director of the Oxford Centre for Life-writing at the University of Oxford. [2]

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Early life and education

Born in Bristol, Kennedy attended the specialist music school, Wells Cathedral School, where she studied as a cellist. In 1996 she commenced studying Music and then English at St Catharine's College, Cambridge. Despite a severe arm injury which affected her career as a cellist, in 2000 she was awarded a scholarship to the Royal College of Music where she studied for a PgDip in advanced performance. She then completed a master's degree in twentieth century literature at King’s College, London, and freelanced as a baroque cellist in London, helping to found the orchestra Southbank Sinfonia with its founder-conductor Simon Over [3] before returning to Cambridge in 2005 where she completed a PhD at Clare Hall on the First World War poet and composer Ivor Gurney. [4]

Career

Kennedy has lectured in music and English at Girton College, Cambridge, where she received a Katherine Jex-Blake Research Fellowship as well as a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship. [5] [6] In 2016 she became a member of the English Faculty at Oxford University, where she is Associate Director of the Oxford Centre for Life-writing at Wolfson College (founded by Professor Dame Hermione Lee in 2011), and holds a Research Fellowship in Life-Writing. [7]

Selected bibliography

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