Katherine Hambridge is a Lecturer in Musicology at Durham University. Her research focusses on French and German musical life in the first half of the nineteenth century.
Katherine gained her undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in Music at the University of Cambridge, during which time she held the organ scholarship at Girton College. In her doctoral research on Berlin, 1800-1815 (completed 2013), she examined how music – in concerts and in the theatre – articulated and shaped Berliners’ relationships with the past and their political affiliations in the turbulent Napoleonic period. After her PhD, Katherine spent time in Berlin on a Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst research grant, working on a project on the city's first Volkstheater, the Königsstädtisches Theater, before taking up a post as research fellow in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Warwick, on the interdisciplinary AHRC-funded project on ‘French Theatre of the Napoleonic Era’. She joined the department at Durham in 2016.