Delia da Sousa Correa is Senior Lecturer in English at The Open University. Her research centres on connections between literature and music in the Victorian and modernist periods. She is co-director of the Open University’s Literature and Music Research Group. She also has a research interest in the writing of Katherine Mansfield and is General Editor of the peer-reviewed journal Katherine Mansfield Studies, published by Edinburgh University Press.
Delia da Sousa Correa is Chair of the Open University’s new MA English. She has previously contributed to an interdisciplinary course on Words and Music, and to English courses including The Nineteenth-Century Novel (Routledge, 2000) and 20th-century Literature (Routledge, 2005). She has supervised doctoral dissertations on interdisciplinary and literary topics and is able to offer supervision to students wishing to undertake doctoral research in literature and music or in other nineteenth-century or modernist topics at the Open University.
Delia da Sousa Correa is the author of George Eliot, Music and Victorian Culture (Palgrave, 2003), ISBN 0-333-99757-3 and the editor of Phrase and Subject: Studies in Literature and Music (Legenda, 2006) ISBN 1-904713-07-6.
Ed. with W.R. Owens, The Handbook to Literary Research (2e), (Routledge, 2010)
‘Katherine Mansfield and Music: Nineteenth-Century Echoes’ in Gerri Kimber and Janet Wilson, eds. Celebrating Katherine Mansfield: A Centenary Volume of Essays (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) pp. 84–98.
‘Musical Performance and the Fiction of Katherine Mansfield’, Katherine Mansfield Studies, Vol. 3 (August, 2011)
‘Literature and Music: Interdisciplinary Research and Teaching at The Open University’, with Katia Chornik, and Robert Samuels in “Crossing the Divides: Multi-Disciplinary Approaches to Teaching and Researching English Studies”, a special issue of the electronic journal Working With English: Modern and Medieval Language, Literature and Drama. You can also download the article as a PDF file [283 KB].
Ed. The Nineteenth-Century Novel: Realisms (Routledge, 2000), ISBN 0-415-23826-9.
‘"The Music Vibrating in her Still": Music and Memory in George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss and Daniel Deronda’, in Nineteenth-Century Contexts Vol 21, a Special Edtion edited by Sally Shuttleworth (2000) 541-563.
Articles on nineteenth-century scientists, feminists, musicians, German Romantics, etc for The Oxford Companion to George Eliot, ed. John Rignall (Oxford University Press, 2000).
‘Goddesses of Instruction and Desire: Ruskin and Music’, in Ruskin and the Dawn of the Modern, ed. Dinah Birch (Oxford University Press, 1999).
‘George Eliot and the Germanic "Musical Magus"’, in George Eliot and Europe, ed. John Rignall (Scolar Press, 1997).
‘Katherine Mansfield and Musical Modernism’, at Centenary Reflections and Contemporary Debates: Modernism and Beyond, 10-12 December 2010, University of Glasgow
‘The Great Handel Chorus’: Handel and Purcell in the Works of George Eliot at ‘Purcell, Handel and Literature’ Conference, Senate House, London, November 2009
‘Musical Performance and the Fiction of Katherine Mansfield’ at ‘Celebrating Katherine Mansfield’ Symposium, Menton, France, September 2009
‘Performativity in Words and Music’ at the 11th International Conference of the International Association of Word and Music Studies (WMA), Vienna, June 2009
‘Katherine Mansfield and Music’ at ‘The Katherine Mansfield Centenary Conference’, Birkbeck, London, September 2008
‘Katherine Mansfield’s 19thc Musicality’ at ‘Words and Notes in the Nineteenth Century’ conference, Institute for Musical Research, Senate House, July 2008
' “Inward speech”: Reading Music in Daniel Deronda’, at 'Reading Daniel Deronda’, University of Bristol, August 2007.
‘Katherine Mansfield and Nineteenth-Century Musicality’, at ‘Words and Notes in the Nineteenth Century’ conference, Institute of Musical Research in the School of Advanced Study, London, July 2007. Also speaker on panel discussion of interdisciplinary pedagogy at this conference.
See also Open Research Online for further details of Delia da Sousa Correa’s research publications.
Email: delia.dasousa@open.ac.uk
