Jessica Ward
Oxford DPhil Student
Faculty of Music
Jess is a PhD student at the University of Oxford, jointly funded by the AHRC and the Clarendon fund. She is supervised by Professor Daniel Grimley. Her thesis examines musical representations of nature in the United States from 1970-present, taking a pluralistic view of “nature” as a concept. Through the work of George Crumb, Jeffrey Mumford, and Raven Chacon, she looks at how conflicting ideas of “nature” have been expressed through music, integrating scholarship from environmental history, ecocriticism, and decolonial studies.
She holds an MSt in Musicology from the University of Oxford and a BMus in Composition from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance.
