Adeline Heck

Adeline Heck is a British Academy International Fellow in the School of Modern Languages at St Andrews. 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.