We are excited to share news of Charlène Bénard’s PhD defence at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, on 19 December 2023. Her thesis, on symphonic metal, women, genre, and gender, is titled ‘Le “metal à chanteuse”, un genre musical? Une enquête sur la construction médiaculturelle d’un genre musical par le gender. Le cas du metal symphonique en France’.
You can read more about the doctoral defence here and download her PhD thesis here.