Ana Carvalho Gaunt

Ana Delfina Xavier de Paiva Sá Carvalho Gaunt

Biography

Ana Gaunt is a DPhil student at the University of Oxford, and a member of The Queen’s College, where she is supervised by Owen Rees.
She completed her undergraduate and master’s degrees in the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, the latter under the supervision of Manuel Pedro Ferreira. She was also a  grant holder in the research project ‘Musical Exchanges: 1100-1650′. In this project, her cooperation focused mainly on entering manuscript data in the Portuguese Early Music Database. She is currently being funded by FCT (Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia). At the moment, she is preparing the book publication of her master’s dissertation, on the Arouca polyphonic codex.
On this same subject she published in the Portuguese Journal of Musicology v.2 n.1 (2015) and also wrote a chapter in the conference proceedings book Musical Exchanges (Kassel: Reichenberger, forthcoming). Since January 2015 she has regularly given papers in the international conferences from the Royal Music Association – Research Students’ Conference and also in the Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference.
She successfully completed the second of her DPhil interim examinations in March 2017.