Research
Lisa's research interests are wide ranging, including medieval and renaissance music, pop music, the relationship between music and gender, and twentieth-century British music. Publishing as Lisa Colton, she has co-edited books including Gender, Age and Musical Creativity (with Catherine Haworth, Routledge), Music and Liturgy in Medieval Britain and Ireland (with Ann Buckley, Cambridge University Press), and Female-Voice Song and Women's Musical Agency in Medieval Europe (with Anna Grau Schmidt, Brill). Her monograph, Angel Song: Medieval English Music in History (Routledge) offered a reappraisal of the historiography of English music, including the biography and career of 15th-century musician John Dunstaple. Lisa's publications include articles on sources, musical analysis, and medievalism in journals such as Plainsong and Medieval Music, Journal of the Royal Musical Association, and Music and Letters. She has also published on women composers and performers, from medieval nuns to Beyoncé. She is Reviews Editor for the journal Early Music and part of the pre-1500 polyphony committee for Early English Church Music (British Academy). Lisa is currently working on 15th-century musical culture, including sources, musicians, and patronage associated with London, St Albans, and Whitby. Having noted the presence of the original manuscript of Ethel Smyth's Mass in D in Liverpool's archival catalogue, a score widely understood within Smyth scholarship as 'lost', she is also engaged in work to explore the significance of this source for understanding of the composer's major choral work.