Gillian Dooley

She has published several monographs and scholarly editions and more than 100 journal articles and book chapters. Her research interest in Jane Austen is longstanding, and she has presented a number of keynotes and public lectures, in person and online, all over the world. In 2023 and 2024 she was a visiting fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities at Edinburgh University, and at Trinity College Dublin in 2025. Her particular interest is in music and literature, and a major project completed in 2017 was the detailed cataloguing of the digitised music collection of Jane Austen and her family, and her book She Played and Sang: Jane Austen and Music was published by Manchester University Press in March 2024, with a paperback edition due out in August 2025.

As a singer and pianist she often presents programs of music with literary themes. Her first Jane Austen’s Music program took place in Adelaide, South Australia, in 2007 and since then she has performed many concerts from the Austen music collections in Australia, the UK and elsewhere.

To celebrate Jane Austen’s 250th birthday in 2025, she will be presenting many programs of her music in various locations in the UK and Australia. Find out more at Jane Austen’s Music website