Dr Catherine Bradley

Catherine A. Bradley is Associate Professor in Early Music and a Fellow of St John’s College.

She holds a 2 million Euro Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council for her project BENEDICAMUS (Musical and Poetic Creativity for a Unique Moment in the Western Christian Liturgy c.1000–1500). She is co-editor of the Cambridge University Press journal Plainsong and Medieval Music and editor the of Royal Musical Association Monographs series. She has received the Royal Musical Association Dent Medal (2023), the Early Music Award of the American Musicological Society (for her first monograph, Polyphony in Medieval Paris: The Art of Composing with Plainchant, Cambridge University Press, 2018), and the Music & Letters Westrup Prize (2012).

Catherine was formerly Professor at the University of Oslo (2017–24), Assistant Professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook (2014–17), and a Research Fellow at The Queen’s College, Oxford (2010–14). She completed her undergraduate and masters degrees at the University of Oxford and received her Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 2011. She has held fellowships at the Fondation maison des sciences de l’homme (2023), the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Centre for Advanced Study (2020–2022), the University of Chicago (Wigeland Fellow, 2020), the Paris Institute of Advanced Studies (EURIAS fellow 2017–18), and at St Catherine’s College, Oxford (2015).

Watch Catherine talk about her recent research on 'Simple' polyphony from the Middle Ages.