Dr Suzanne Robinson is an award-winning biographer and musicologist, the author of Peggy Glanville-Hicks: Critic and Composer (University of Illinois Press, 2019) and editor or co-editor of five other books, including Grainger the Modernist (Ashgate, 2015), Passions of a Mighty Heart: Selected Letters of G.W.L. Marshall-Hall (Lyrebird, 2015), Marshall-Hall's Melbourne (Australian Scholarly Press, 2012) and Michael Tippett: Music and Literature (Ashgate, 2000). Her research has been supported by a C.H. Currey Fellowship at the State Library of NSW, an Australia Council Emerging Writers grant, an Academy of the Humanities travel grant, an ARC Postdoctoral Fellowship, an ARC Small Grant and a University of Melbourne research fellowship. As well as winning publication awards from the American Musicological Society and the Society for American Music, in 2020 she was shortlisted for the Magarey Medal for Biography (awarded by the Australian Historical Association) and the Hazel Rowley Fellowship. In 2017 she was the recipient of the Kurt Weill Prize (Weill Foundation, New York) for her article on Benjamin Britten's opera Paul Bunyan, published in American Music.

Her interest in women's history, sexual politics, queer studies and auto/biography have resulted in chapters in books including the Cambridge Companion to Michael Tippett (CUP, 2013), National Traditions in Nineteenth-Century Opera (Ashgate, 2010) and T.S. Eliot's Orchestra (Garland, 2000), and in journals including the Australian Journal of Biography and History, Cambridge Opera Journal, Musicology Australia and Australasian Music Research. In 2019 she featured in a BBC radio documentary about the British composer Stanley Bate, appeared on the ABC's Music Show and was guest speaker in the Hanson-Dyer Music Colloquia at the University of Melbourne, and in 2020 she was a keynote speaker at the annual conference of the Musicological Society of Australia.

Over twenty years she has taught twentieth-century music history and several unique subjects in Australian music history at the University of Melbourne, and in 1995 she was one of the first in Australia to teach a Women in Music subject. She has supervised numerous postgraduate theses in Australian, American and British music and several of her former students have gone on to academic appointments in Australia and overseas.

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