Rate My Professor Helen Julia Minors

Her research specializations encompass music and translation, multimodal translation in music, dance, drama, film, and sculpture, choreomusicology, women and leadership, inclusive music, art, and design education, interdisciplinary collaboration across arts disciplines, soundpainting, and improvisation. Minors has published eight books, including Music, Text and Translation (2013), Paul Dukas: Legacies of a French Musician (2019, co-edited), Music, Dance and Translation (2023), Teaching Music Performance in Higher Education (2024, co-edited), The Routledge Companion to Women and Musical Leadership (2024, co-edited), and The Routledge Companion to Choreomusicology (2025, co-edited). Articles appear in Translation Matters (2025), Dance Research (2009), Opera Quarterly (2006), and others; book chapters in volumes on women's leadership, multimodal translation, and intercultural arts. She has received funding from AHRC for networks on Women's Musical Leadership (2022-2024) and Translating Music (2013-2014), Arts Council England, and Co-PI for Taking Race Live (2014-2018). Awards include the Rose Award for Teaching, Learning and Assessment and Research (2016), CATE Finalist of AdvanceHE (2017), and Student Award for Employability at Kingston University (2021). She supervises doctoral students at multiple institutions, has examined over 20 PhDs internationally, and contributes to broadcasting on BBC Radio and her weekly show Helen’s Classical Journey on Radio Wey.