Departmental homepageDr Bradley is Associate Professor in Early Music and a Fellow of St John’s College. She currently holds a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council for her project BENEDICAMUS (Musical and Poetic Creativity for a Unique Moment in the Western Christian Liturgy c.1000-1500). She was formerly Professor at the University of Oslo (2017-24), Assistant Professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook (2014-17), and a Research Fellow at The Queen’s College, Oxford (2010-14). She completed her undergraduate and master's degrees at the University of Oxford and received her PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2011. She has received the Royal Musical Association Dent Medal (2023), the Early Music Award of the American Musicological Society and the Westrup Prize (2012).
Dr Bradley teaches medieval and renaissance topics in music history and analysis.
Her research interests focus on early music, medieval motets, 13th-century polyphony, "simple" polyphony and music and ritual.
‘Singing in Stimmtausch c.1100–1350: Re-Positioning Polyphony in Medieval France’, Journal of the American Musicological Society 78/1 (2025, forthcoming)
Music and Liturgy for the Benedicamus Domino c.800–1650, ed., Épitome musical (Turnhout: Brepols, 2024)
'Perspectives for Lost Polyphony and Red Notation Around 1300: Medieval Motet and Organum Fragments in Stockholm', Early Music History 41 (2023): 1–92
Polyphony in Medieval Paris: The Art of Composing with Plainchant (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018)
