Amanda J. Haste, Ph.D.
Musician – Musicologist – Linguist – Independent Researcher
Traversing borders of music, language, and identity
#MusicianAtHeart #ExploringLanguage #InfiniteCuriosity
Contact me at amanda@amandahaste.com
MY NEWS!
10 December 2025
Along with my friend and colleague Linda Baines, I’m pleased to announce that our new book, Becoming a Successful Independent Scholar (BaSIS) is now under contract to Routledge. As a result of academic redundancies, funding withdrawal, and vanishing opportunities for tenure, the number of independent scholars is increasing. Our book will use the lived experience of independent scholars worldwide to help independent scholars use their research skills and specialist knowledge to establish their status as serious researchers, keep publishing, and navigate new income streams. It will be published in the Insider Guides to Academic Success series, and we expect to have the final manuscript ready for review by April 2027.
30 December 2024
Delighted to see that my monograph Music and Identity in Twenty-First Century Monasticism (Routledge, 2023) is now available as a Kindle edition.
19 August 2024
Delighted to be taking up the post of Musical Director for the Devon branch of the Society of Recorder Players from November 2024.
Devon Branch Programme – Society of Recorder Players (srp.org.uk)
29 April 2024
Thanks to all our contributors for a successful book launch of the NCIS Guide for Independent Scholars. In line with NCIS’s commitment to open access, this volume is free to download and print. It contains active hyperlinks, and is eminently searchable.
For the full PDF of this this rich and much-needed resource, go to https://www.ncis.org/publications-independent-scholars
19 April 2024
Delighted to read a lovely review of my monograph Music and Identity in Twenty-First-Century Monasticism:
“…a comprehensive and compelling study of the agency of music in the construction and expression of personal and community identity. This is not a book just for university libraries, this is a text for choral composers, those fascinated by chants and plainsong but also those interested in exercises in the ethnography of unusual groups, how to embed those diatribes and conversations within rigorous academic endeavours. Overall, this is an exceptional feat of research and ethnography.”
Jasmine Hazel Shadrack, Ph.D. (musician and autoethnographer)
Read the full review here.
25 March 2024
After two years of hard work, the NCIS Guide for Independent Scholars has now been finalised, and is now available to download from the NCIS website. Edited by Linda Baines and myself, this long-awaited volume boasts a foreword by Ronald Gross (author of the seminal Independent Scholar’s Handbook) and 180 pages of wonderful contributions from scholars in the USA, Europe, United Kingdom and Europe.
You can find an introduction and the downloadable PDF here.
17 March 2024
Yay! Came home from a fabulous CIOL Translators Day to the news that I’d competed 150 hours of CPD in 2023/24 for the Institute of Translation and Interpreting (ITI).
11 January 2024
On 8 February I’ll be giving an online presentation for the UK-based Forum for Independent Research Endeavours (FIRE-UK) on turning your thesis into a book. I’m delighted that my brilliant editor, Jess Farr-Cox of The Filthy Comma will be joining me for the Q&A, so attendees will be able to benefit from her considerable experience.
19 December 2023
Delighted to see my article “Entente musicale” in print in time for Christmas. In this article, published by the Institute of Translation and Interpreting (ITI Bulletin Jan-Feb 2024, pp. 12-15) I explore the linguistic pitfalls of translating musical terminology between French and English.
1 December 2023
Many thanks to theologian Dr Valerie Abrahamsen for her mini-review of my monograph Music and Identity in Twenty-First-Century Monasticism, which she describes as “a rich, wide-ranging and illuminating study of today’s monastic lifestyle, framed by the vital role of music in most communities.” You can read her full review here. You can also get to know Dr Abrahamsen and her work at Wisdom Words.
20 October 2023
My monograph is here! Published by Routledge today, in the Routledge Research in Music series. 🙂
Abstract and TOC available at Music and Identity in Twenty-First Century Monasticism – 1st Edition – (routledge.com)
“A rich, wide-ranging and illuminating study of today’s monastic lifestyle, framed by the vital role of music in most communities. Using ethnographic, theological and multi-disciplinary evidence, Dr. Haste offers a balanced and fascinating treatment of the lives of women and men who have committed themselves to the monastic lifestyle.” Valerie Abrahamsen, Th.D.
20 September 2023
My co-editor Linda Baines and I are busy reviewing the wonderful chapters submitted to our Guide for Independent Scholars, scheduled for publication by NCIS in early 2024. Watch this space!
14 August 2023
Wow! My paper on “The Lord’s Prayer as Song” has racked up 440 reads on Academia.edu!
(99+) The Lord’s Prayer as song: Performance, gesture and meaning | Amanda Haste – Academia.edu
4 April 2023
Fab news! Amazingly positive final review of the manuscript of my monograph Music and Identity in Twenty-First-Century Monasticism. No revisions required, so going straight to publication with Routledge!
31 March 2023
An interesting couple of days attending the 2023 CIOL Conference online. Nice not to have to travel, but really missed the interaction with other linguists.
24 March 2023
Spent a fab day at the CIOL Translators Day, listening to some great presentations and meeting lots of lovely linguists including HRH Prince Michael of Kent.
8 February 2023
Delighted to have been invited by Dr Helen Kara to chair the plenary sessions on both days of the International Creative Research Methods Conference (11-12 September) in Manchester, UK. You can watch the opening keynote by Pam Burnard, chaired by yours truly, here.
31 January 2023
So pleased to have been invited to give an online presentation for the UK-based Forum for Independent Research Endeavours (FIRE-UK) later this year. I’ll be discussing the trials – and triumphs – of refocusing a musicological thesis into a monograph on music and identity.
12 January 2023
Yessss!!! The manuscript of my monograph Music and Identity in Twenty-First-Century Monasticism is now with Routledge, so currently awaiting the reviewers’ verdicts with bated breath….
9 December 2022
Delighted to have been admitted to the Institute of Translation and Interpreting as a Qualified Member (Translator).
1 December 2022
Yay! A fun project that has come to fruition. Edited by Helen Ross, aided and abetted by myself and Linda Baines, the NCIS Global Cuisines scholarly cookbook has now been published.
It’s free to download, so print it out as a booklet and enjoy!
Amanda J. Haste, Ph.D. 