Dr Adeline Heck

Dr Adeline Heck

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow

Email
aah24@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Biography

Adeline Heck is a British Academy International Fellow in the School of Modern Languages at ϳԹ. After obtaining her PhD from Princeton University in 2020, she worked in China and in Belgium, where she completed a three-year FNRS fellowship (2022-2025) on the Bayreuth Festival and its Francophone attendees. Her academic speciality centres on the study of nineteenth-century French literature and its interactions with opera and vocal music, with a particular interest in the reception of Richard Wagner's works and ideas. Her British Academy project focuses on 19th-century French opera libretti and their status as literary works. 

Selected publications

  • Heck, A., 16 Mar 2026, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Music & Letters. Advance Articles, gcag026.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  • Charbonnier, G. (Editor) & Heck, A. (Editor), 21 May 2025, Classiques Garnier. (Cahiers Valery Larbaud; vol. 2025, no. 61)

    Research output: Book/ReportBook

  • Heck, A., 23 Jul 2025, Villiers de l’Isle-Adam: un inactuel en son siècle. Enriquez, R. & Orset, A. (eds.). Paris: Classiques Garnier, p. 157-175 (Études dix-neuviémistes (Éditions Classiques Garnier); vol. 70).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  • Heck, A., 6 May 2024, In: Nineteenth-Century French Studies. 52, 3-4, p. 239-256

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  • Heck, A., 23 Aug 2023, Nouvelle histoire de la musique en France, 1870-1950.

    Research output: Contribution to specialist publicationArticle

  • Heck, A., 1 Mar 2023, In: 19th-Century Music. 46, 3, p. 244-272

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  • Heck, A., 26 May 2022, The Routledge companion to music and modern literature. Durkin, R., Dayan, P., Englund, A. & Clausius, K. (eds.). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, p. 112-125 (Routledge music companions).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  • Heck, A., 2020, In: Revue belge de musicologie . 74, p. 71-84

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  • Heck, A., 2020, In: Études Stéphane Mallarmé. 6, 2018, p. 77-94

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review