Dr Jacob Mallinson Bird is Departmental Lecturer at the Faculty of Music, University of Oxford, and College Lecturer at Exeter, St. Hugh’s and The Queen’s Colleges. He is also Affiliated Lecturer at the Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge.
Jacob’s research centres around issues of queerness in musical performance, with an interest in phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and queer theory. His doctoral research, which is to be published as a monograph with Bloomsbury Academic, investigated lip-syncing in East London’s drag community. His current research focusses on noise music in queer contexts.
Publications
- – Becoming Queen: Voice and Identity in Drag Lip-Sync Performance — Bloomsbury Academic, book under contract.
- – “Ghostly Voices: Lip-Syncing, Memory, AIDS, and Dickie Beau’s Re-Member Me”. In The Routledge Companion to Voice and Identity, edited by Amy Skjerseth, Freya Jarman, and Naomi André. Routledge, 2026.
- – “Drag Lip-Sync Performance as Otobiography”, Riffs 6.1 (2022).
- – “The Cyborg Queen: Lip-Syncing and Posthumanism…”, Contemporary Music Review 39.5 (2020).
- – “Haptic Aurality: On Touching the Voice in Drag Lip-Sync Performance”, Sound Studies 6.1 (2020).