Brief CV
Dr Amanda Haste is an Anglo-French musicologist and academic translator who divides her time between France and England. From 2015 to 2022 she was adjunct faculty at the University of Aix-Marseille, where she taught in the Department of Anglophone Studies (Aix-en-Provence) and the Music Department (Aix-en-Provence and Marseille). Her monograph on Music & Identity in Twenty-First-Century Monasticism is due to be published by Routledge in 2023, and she is currently co-editing (with Linda Baines and Helen Ross) A Guide for Independent Scholars (NCIS, forthcoming 2023).
From 2015 to 2022 Dr Haste served as President of the National Coalition of Independent Scholars – a 501(c)3 not-for-profit learned society registered in the USA and with an international membership – which she now serves as Communications Officer.
QUALIFICATIONS
Language/Pedagogy
2022 Qualified Member status awarded by the Institute of Translation and Interpreting, Milton Keynes
2020 Chartered Linguist status awarded by the Chartered Institute of Linguists, London
2015 Diploma in Translation (Masters level, EQF Level 7) with Merit, Chartered Institute of Linguists, London
2010 Foundation in English Language Teaching (FELT) Cambridge Teaching Knowledge Test with Distinction, Anglo-Continental Language School, Bournemouth
1996 Adult & Further Education Teaching Certificate, University of Plymouth
Music/Musicology
2009 Ph.D. in musicology, University of Bristol, GB. Thesis “The role of music in twenty-first-century Anglican monasticism.”
1998 Master of Arts (with Distinction) in historical musicology, University of Exeter, GB. Dissertation: “The nineteenth-century Anglican plainchant revival.”
1996 Bachelor of Music (with Honours) 2:1, University of Exeter, GB
1987 Associate of the London College of Music in saxophone (performance diploma), London College of Music, GB
1983 Licentiate of the Guildhall School of Music in flute (teaching diploma), Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, GB
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2015 – 2022 Adjunct Faculty at Aix-Marseille University (course details below)
2014 – present Invited Lecturer (see below)
2009 – present Freelance Translator (French-English), specialising in academic texts. Translations of books and research papers published in leading journals.
2005 – present Independent Researcher Research interests include music and identity, authenticity, and translation studies (see publications list).
1980 – present Private Music Teaching Practice
1980 – present Workshop leader and director (including orchestral, jazz, instruments in worship, research skills development, issues in academic translation)
1980 – 2008 Compositions published and broadcast (BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio Devon, TV South West, BBC TV Devon)
Concerts of classical, jazz and traditional music
Director of woodwind music in schools & colleges
UNIVERSITY COURSES TAUGHT (in French and/or English)
| 2019-22 | S’exprimer et communiquer en anglais [Research skills in English] | Designed and delivered to Masters students in Acoustics & Musicology |
| 2016-18 | Langues musicologiques 3 – Anglais [English for Musicians and Musicologists] | Designed and delivered to Y3 Music undergraduates |
| 2016-18 | Langues musicologiques 2 – Anglais [English for Musicians and Musicologists] | Designed and delivered to Y2 Music undergraduates |
| 2016-18 | Langues musicologiques 1 – Anglais [English for Musicians and Musicologists] | Designed and delivered to Y1 Music undergraduates |
| 2016-18 | Anglais des affaires [Business English] | Co-designed and delivered to Y3 Applied Languages undergraduates |
| 2016-17 | Musique et sciences humaines 1 Savoirs et savoir faire [English Language Skills for musicologists] | Designed and delivered to Masters students in Musicology |
| 2016-17 | Musique et sciences humaines 2 Traduction [Translation for musicologists] | Designed and delivered to Masters students in Musicology |
| 2015-16 | Pratique de la traduction [Practical Translation] | Designed and delivered to Y3 Applied Languages undergraduates |
| 2015-16 | Traduction littéraire [Literary Translation] | Delivered to Y2 Applied Languages undergraduates |
For PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS go to amandahaste/com/publications.
For conference papers, lectures, book reviews, read on….
CONFERENCE PAPERS & LECTURES
Mar 2021 ‘Refocusing Music & Identity: Challenges of Creating a Monograph from a Musicological Thesis.’ Presented at Quick-Fire Alt-Conference, Forum for Independent Research Endeavours (UK). Online.
May 2020 ‘Dead to the World: Negotiating the Borders between Secular and Religious Life through the Agency of Music.’ Accepted for ‘Somewhere in Between: Borders and Borderlands’ conference, London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, St. Anne’s College, University of Oxford. [COVID-19]. Presented at ‘Virtually Undisciplined: Learning from Female Scholarship’ Virtual Slow Conference, 20 April to 14 May 2020. Women in Academia Support Network. Online.
June 2019 ‘The British Colony in Marseille: Meeting the Challenges of Migrant Life 1850-1900.’ Making Connections, Meeting Challenges’ conference, National Coalition of Independent Scholars. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA.
Sept 2017 ‘English as a musicological language: Translation in musical communication and musicological research.’ ‘Translation and Language Teaching’ conference, University of Maribor, Slovenia.
July 2017 ‘Educating ourselves: Learning to sing the Opus Dei.’ ‘Churches and Education’ conference, Ecclesiastical History Society. University of Exeter, England.
May 2017 ‘A musician abroad: The linguistic pitfalls of establishing a personal identity as a musician.’ ‘Personal Identity through a Language Lens’ conference. University of Lodz, Poland.
Mar 2017 Invited lecture. ‘Instruments in Worship: Heaven or Hell?’ Anglican Chaplaincy of Marseille, France.
July 2016 ‘A Haven of the British Empire: The ‘English Church’ in Marseille, 1850-1900. ‘Church and Empire conference, Ecclesiastical History Society. University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
July 2015 ‘Translating the via media monastica: Musico-textual manipulation in the creation of an Anglican monastic Daily Office and liturgy.’‘Translating Christianity’ conference, Ecclesiastical History Society. University of York, England.
June 2015 ‘How not to lose it in translation: Translating and glossing source material in academic publication. ‘Traditions and Transitions’ conference, National Coalition of Independent Scholars. Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
Mar 2015 Invited lecture. ‘Instruments in Worship: Heaven or Hell?‘ Royal School of Church Music, Paris, France.
Dec 2014 ‘Cyberchant: Medium and message in the computerised notation of newly composed monastic music.’ ‘Music and Technology’ conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology – CIM14. National Institute for Music Research, Berlin, Germany.
Aug 2014 Keynote paper. ‘Composer-nuns: Evaluation, attribution and intellectual property rights in twenty-first-century convent music.’, ‘Nuns’ Literacies’ conference (History of Women Religious). University of Glasgow, Scotland.
Mar 2014 Invited lecture. ‘To Rome or not to Rome? The challenge of Anglican monasticism explored through its music.’ Anglican Forum for Theology, Paris, France.
Oct 2013 ‘You can be as different as you want, if you’re a Sister: Music as an agent of difference in twenty-first-century convents.’ ‘Music, Gender & Difference’ conference, University of Music & Performing Arts, Vienna, Austria.
May 2013 ‘Dancing my prayer; dancing my self: Bodily expression of interiority in twenty-first-century monastic life.’ ‘Esthetics and Spirituality: Places of Interiority’ conference, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.
June 2011 ‘We are what we sing: The role of music in identity construction in modern Anglican monasticism.’ ‘Identities, Organization & Exile’ conference (History of Women Religious), University of London, England.
April 2011 ‘A third gender?: Expression of gender identity in celibate monasticism through words and music.’ ‘Contemporary Identities’ conference (Ars Identitatis), Sorbonne University, Paris, France.
Jan 2008 ‘Is it all plainchant? An exploration of instrumental music in twenty-first-century monastic communities.’ Royal Musical Association conference, University of Bristol, England.
BOOK REVIEWS
2021 Disinformation in Mass Media: Gluck, Piccinni, and the Journal de Paris. Beverly Jerold. London & New York: Routledge, 2021. Royal Musical Association Monographs no. 36. The Independent Scholar Vol. 8 (December, 2021), pp. 80-81. First published online 28 June 2021. https://www.ncis.org/sites/default/files/TIS%20Vol.8%20FINAL_0.pdf
2021 Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks: A Guide to Academic Publishing Success (2nd Edition). Wendy Laura Belcher. Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing, 2019. The Independent Scholar Vol. 8 (December 2021), pp. 86-87. First published online 4 May 2021. https://www.ncis.org/sites/default/files/TIS%20Vol.8%20FINAL_0.pdf
2021 Black Metal, Trauma, Subjectivity and Sound: Screaming the Abyss. Jasmine Hazel Shadrack. Bingley: Emerald, 2020. To be published in The Independent Scholar Vol. 8 (December, 2021), pp. 94-95. First published online 17 January 2021. https://www.ncis.org/sites/default/files/TIS%20Vol.8%20FINAL_0.pdf
2020 Interpreters vs Machines: Can Interpreters Survive in an AI-Dominated World? Jonathan Downie. Oxford; New York: Routledge, 2019. The Linguist 59.2 (April/May 2020): p. 25. https://www.ciol.org.uk/the-linguist#ufh-i-609218265-the-linguist-59-2-april-may-2020
2020 Music for Women (Survivors of Violence): A Feminist Music Therapy Interactive eBook. Sandra L. Curtis. Barcelona Publishers, 2020. The Independent Scholar Vol. 7 (August 2020), pp. 59-60. First published online 18 February 2020. https://www.ncis.org/sites/default/files/TIS%20Vol.7%20FINAL.pdf
2020 Music and Death: Interdisciplinary Readings and Perspectives. Ed. Marie Josephine Bennett and David Gracon. Emerald Interdisciplinary Connexions. Emerald Publishing, 2019. The Independent Scholar Vol. 7 (August 2020): pp. 49-51. First published online on 27 January 2020. https://www.ncis.org/sites/default/files/TIS%20Vol.7%20FINAL.pdf
2019 Interpreters vs Machines: Can Interpreters Survive in an AI-Dominated World? Jonathan Downie. Oxford; New York: Routledge, 2019. The Independent Scholar Vol. 6 (February 2020): pp. 82-3. First published online on 23 December 2019. and Culture across History, ed. Susan De Gaia. Santa Barbara, CA; Denver, CO; Oxford, Great Britain: ABC-CLIO, 2018. 2 vols. The Independent Scholar Vol. 6 (February 2020): pp. 75-6. First published online on 11 March 2019. https://www.ncis.org/sites/default/files/TIS%20Vol.6%20Feb2020_FINAL.pdf
2019 Little Quick Fix: Write a Questionnaire and Little Quick Fix: Do Your Interview. Helen Kara. Little Quick Fix series. London: Sage, 2019. The Independent Scholar Vol. 6 (February 2020): pp. 77-8 First published online on 4 March 2019. https://www.ncis.org/sites/default/files/TIS%20Vol.6%20Feb2020_FINAL.pdf
2019 Research Ethics in the Real World: Euro-Western and Indigenous Approaches. Helen Kara. U Bristol & U Chicago: Policy Press, 2018. The Independent Scholar Vol. 5 (May 2019): pp. 87-8. First published online on 4 March 2019. https://www.ncis.org/sites/default/files/tis/TIS%20Vol.5%20Aug2019_FINAL.pdf
PUBLISHED TRANSLATION & EDITING (selection)
2017 [Translated and provided editorial assistance for] The Chronicles of Nazareth (The English Convent) Bruges 1629-1793, ed. Caroline Bowden. Catholic Records Society, Records Series 87 (Woodbridge: Boydell Press).
2013 [Transcribed and translated archival material for] Convents in Exile 1600-1800, ed. Caroline Bowden (London: Pickering & Chatto).
1991 [Copy edited] Villa-Lobos, the Music: An Analysis of his Style by L.M. Peppercorn, transl. Stefan de Haan (London: Kahn & Averill).
AWARDS
2020 NCIS Special Research Support Grant
2019 NCIS Research Grant for research at the Bibliothèque Nationale
2018 Elizabeth Eisenstein Essay Prize – joint winner
2017 Elizabeth Eisenstein Essay Prize – shortlisted
2006 J. H. Britton Fund for Music – Musica Britannica
2005 Louise Dyer Award for research into British music
1996 Dean’s Commendation for Excellence – University of Exeter
PEER REVIEWING
Religion (Taylor & Francis). 1 paper reviewed (2018)
The Independent Scholar (USA). 13 papers reviewed (2015-present).
Ars Identitatis, Paris, France. 17 papers reviewed (2013-14).
Etnográfica (Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia) Lisbon, Portugal. 1 paper reviewed (2013).
REVIEW COMMITTEES
National Coalition of Independent Scholars, USA. 21 conference abstracts; 15 grant applications (2014-present).
Elizabeth Eisenstein Essay Prize. Chair of 2016 Review Committee. 10 papers (2016).
SESSION CHAIR & PANELLIST
April 2022 Chair, NCIS webinar, “Letters, Lines and Logs: Researching Maritime History” presented by Dr Phillip Reid.
Feb 2022 Chair, NCIS webinar. “Social Media and Your Research Identity” by Dr Hannah Pethen-Barrett.
Nov 2021 Chair, NCIS webinar. “Independent Publishing,” presented by Philip Stover.
May 2021 Chair, NCIS webinar. “Chronology of a Transnational Social Movement: Japanese American A-Bomb Survivors and their Community Newspaper (RAFU SHIMPO),” presented by Dr. Gloria R. Montebruno Saller.
April 2021 Chair, NCIS webinar. “The Early 18th Century Apocalypse: How the Unforeseen Actions of a Few People Forever Changed Our World of War, Plague, and Smallpox,” by Dr Margaret DeLacy.
July 2020 Chair “Publishing your Research” webinar for NCIS.
June 2019 Chair “Career Strategies for Independent Scholars” panel. NCIS ‘Making Connections, Meeting Challenges” conference, University of Massachusetts, Amherst MA, USA.
Sept 2017 Session chair (in English) at ‘Translation in Language Teaching’ conference, Maribor University, Slovenia.
July 2017 Session chair (in English) at ‘Churches & Education’ conference, Exeter University, England.
June 2015 Chair, Research Skills Workshops. NCIS ‘Traditions & Transitions’ conference, Yale University, New Haven CT, USA.
June 2015 Session chair, ‘Revisiting History’. NCIS ‘Traditions & Transitions’ conference, Yale University, New Haven CT, USA.
May 2013 Session chair, ‘Mediaeval Forms of Interiority.’ Esthetics & Spirituality conference, Catholic University, Leuven, Belgium.
April 2011 Session chair (in French) ‘Gender and Sexual Identities.’ Identités contemporaines conference, Sorbonne University, Paris, France.
NON-PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES & BOOKS (selection)
All Saints et les marins: L’Histoire de l’Eglise Anglaise à Marseille. Marseille, March 2015.
All Saints and Sailors: A History of All Saints’ Anglican Chaplaincy, Marseille. Marseille [2014]. 2nd ed. June 2016; 3rd ed. Feb. 2018.
‘Affiliation? Who Needs It?’ The Independent Scholar Quarterly Vol. 27 Issue 2 (May 2014): 5-7. National Coalition of Independent Scholars. http://www.ncis.org/sites/default/files/tis/NCIS_May14.pdf.
‘Germans, Germans Everywhere.’ Mitteilungsblatt 103 (March): 39-40. Anglo-German Family History Society, 2013.
‘Research News from France 2.’ CHOMBEC News Issue 14 (Winter 2012): 13-14.
‘Making a (Musical) Life.’ AAGP News (November 2011). Anglo-American Group of Provence.
‘Seventy Years a Priest.’ European Anglican Online. October 2011.
‘Research News from France 1.’ CHOMBEC News Issue 11 (Summer 2011).
‘Twenty-First-Century Anglican Monastic Music – a Reflection.’ CHOMBEC News Issue 9 (Summer 2010).
‘Musical Marseille.’ European Anglican. May 2009.
‘Anglican Monastic Music in the Twenty-First Century.’ CHOMBEC News Issue 2 (Winter 2006).
Venn Ottery: A Brief History. Otter Vale Historical Society 1976.
REFERENCES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST
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