Francisca Naranjo Araujo

Francisca Naranjo is a Cambridge Trust International Scholar in Musicology at Girton College, Cambridge. Her doctoral research, supervised by Professor Benjamin Walton, explores intellectual history in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Latin America, with particular focus on the narrative structures underpinning historical writing.

Her thesis investigates how classical music was woven into broader cultural narratives of development, modernity, and decline, drawing from literary theory and continental philosophy to chart the region’s changing historical consciousness. 

Francisca holds a master’s degree from the University of Oxford, supported by a full-ride scholarship from the Clarendon Fund. Prior to this, she completed her BMus at King’s College London, where she was awarded a first-class degree and held an Undergraduate Research Fellowship (KURF). Francisca also attended the Royal Academy of Music for classical piano, and in 2024, she received the Rima Alamuddin Composition Prize for her solo piano work. 

Outside of academia, Francisca has worked in arts administration as part of the Marketing and PR team at the London Symphony Orchestra, and has professional experience as a freelance composer.