CV

Education
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St. Peter’s College, University of Oxford October 2009 – present
State Scholarships Foundation (Greece) funded DPhil in Music
Supervisor: Prof. Martin Stokes
“An Ethnography of Chip Music: identity, creativity, aesthetics”

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens October 2007-September 2009
MA in Music, Culture, and Communication
Supervisor: Prof. Dimitris Charitos
Awarded first class honours
“Hacking as post-subculture in contemporary pop music”

University College London October 2006-September 2007
MA in Material and Visual Culture
Supervisor: Prof. Susanne Kuechler
“The Materiality of Music: Experimental Pathways through Aural culture”

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens September 2001-September 2006
BA/MA in Music Studies
Major in Ethnomusicology and Music Technology

Teaching experience
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University of Oxford, Department for Continuing Education 2010-2012

Taught “Music and Art” a class of 15 mature students in the course of 10 weeks. Duties included course material development and organisation, teaching, assigning and marking coursework, organising and leading fieldtrips in Oxford.

Southampton Solent University, Faculty of the Creative Industries and Society 2012

Hourly-paid associate lecturer. Teaching, coursework marking.

Oxbridge Academic Programs 2011

Taught “Anthropology and Archaeology” at a class of 15 international students aged 14-17 in the course of 6 weeks as part of “Oxford Tradition” organised by New York-based OAP. Duties included curriculum and course material development and organisation, budget planning, teaching, assigning and marking coursework, organising and leading fieldtrips in Oxford, London and Wiltshire (Stonehenge, Woodhenge, Avebury Stones), and leading group project resulting in a class journal.

St. Peter’s College, “Investigating Options” 2011

Occasional lecturing, classes of 15-20 college students on topics related to the social sciences.

Private tutoring 2003-present

Presentations and Publications
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Publications
Polymeropoulou, Marilou (2011) “The Cambridge Companion to Electronic Music” and “Listening through the Noise” in Current Musicology No. 90 (Fall 2010) Book review
Polymeropoulou, Marilou (2011) “An Introduction to Chip Music” in International Association for the Study of Popular Music (US Branch) blog (http://iaspm-us.net/student-feature-marilou-polymeropoulou-and-chip-music/)

Polymeropoulou, Marilou (2012) “Ice Music: an Ethnographic Approach” Forthcoming
Polymeropoulou, Marilou (2012) “Switching Codes”. Book review. Forthcoming

Invited Seminars
Polymeropoulou, Marilou (2012) “The Chip Music Internet Auditorium: Everyday Listening Practices in an Online Musical Community” Locus Sonus Symposium, Nantes, France
Polymeropoulou, Marilou (2012) “Chip Music and Videogame Aesthetics”. St. Peter’s College Graduate Seminar, Oxford, UK
Polymeropoulou, Marilou (2011) “An Introduction to Social Sciences”. St. Peter’s College Investigating Options, Oxford, UK
Polymeropoulou, Marilou (2011) “Music: Bridging arts, humanities, and sciences”. St. Peter’s College Graduate seminar “Just Five Minutes”, Oxford, UK
Polymeropoulou, Marilou (2010) “Cyberethnography vs Ethnography?”. Georgina Born’s Ethnography Seminar, Faculty of Music, University of Oxford, UK
Polymeropoulou, Marilou (2010) “Ice Music: Musical Polarities”. St. Peter’s College Graduate Seminar, Oxford, UK
Polymeropoulou, Marilou (2010) “Introduction to Chip Music”. St. Peter’s College Graduate Seminar, Oxford, UK

Media Presentation
Polymeropoulou, Marilou (2011) “On Ice Music and Chip Music”. RTE Lyric fm Ireland- Interview to Luke Clancy

Conference Presentations
Polymeropoulou, Marilou (2012) “Ice Music: an Ethnographic Approach on the Musical Aesthetics of Ice”. Music and the Imaginary of the North and the Cold. Laboratoire international d’étude multidisciplinaire comparée des représentations du Nord, Université du Québec à Montréal
Polymeropoulou, Marilou (2008) “Sound and Music in Cyberspace: exploring material technocultures” in Sound and Music Computing conference proceedings, Technologisches Universitaet Berlin, Germany
Polymeropoulou, Marilou (2008) “The Materiality of Inter-Balkan Identity: YARTZ case study” in Border Crossings conference proceedings, Korçë, Albania

Research Funding and Awards
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Foundation of National Scholarships (Greece) 2009-present

Faculty of Music, University of Oxford
Travel award 2010-2012

St. Peter’s College, University of Oxford
Emeritus Fellows Travel award 2012
Research grant 2010, 2011
MCR fund 2010-2012
Tutor for Graduates award 2011-2012

Positions of Responsibility
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St. Clare’s International College 2011 Residential warden. Responsible for 17 female students’ (aged 16-20 years old) welfare and well-being in loco parentis.

YELP Students, Honorary Campus Leader 2011-present
Mentor in disadvantaged secondary schools

St. Peter’s College. 2010-2012
Telethon caller. Assisted in Telethon fundraising campaign for two years, individually pledging approx. £16,000 per year. Supporting alumni relations with the College.
Library assistant.
Invigilator. St. Peter’s College. Faculty of Music, University of Oxford. Invigilating College collections, finals, prelims, and faculty finals.

Research assistant.
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (2009-2010). Duties included collecting data and organising student database by research topic and supervisor.
British Museum, Centre for Anthropological Research (2006-2007). Duties included photographing, scanning and cataloguing artifacts from the South Pacific region for the Merlin database.

Committee Member
University of Oxford, Student Advisory Group (2012)
Royal Musical Association, Student Commitee (2012)
University of Oxford, Faculty of Music, Joint Consultative Committee (2012)

Conference organiser and coordinator
British Forum for Ethnomusicology Conference, 2010, Oxford, UK
Sound and Music Computing 2007, Lefkada, Greece)

Music Journalist
Avopolis Music Network. Writing music album reviews and articles for online magazine. 2009-present
Innovative Enterprise Action – HybridLab Project. Music journalism internship. 2007

Professional Memberships
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Royal Musical Association Student Committee member (elected) 2012
Royal Anthropological Institute Fellow (elected) with ASA 2011
Postgraduate Fellow at Royal Geographical Society with IBG (elected) 2011
Association of Internet Researchers 2012
British Forum for Ethnomusicology 2011
The Society of Ethnomusicology 2011
The Hellenic Centre 2011
Incorporated Society of Musicians 2010
The Chartered Institute of Journalists 2010
University and College Union 2010
International Association for the Study of Popular music (US and UK branches) 2010
Association of Internet Researchers 2012

Research training
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University of Oxford, Humanities Division
Communicating your research 2012
Journal Publishing Workshop 2011
Poster design and presentation in humanities 2011
Presenting Conference Papers 2010
Managing your DPhil experience 2009
Managing your supervisor 2009

University of Oxford, Oxford Internet Institute
Online Ethnography Workshop 2011

Teaching training, University of Oxford
Faculty of Music, PLTO 2010
Department for Continuing Education 2009-2010

Online skills
Ethics 1: Good research practice 2011
Ethics 2: Working with human subjects 2011
Career planning in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences 2011
Project management in the research context 2010
Good practice in citation and the avoidance of plagiarism 2010
Getting published in the Arts 2010
Selecting a conference, presenting & networking 2009

IT Skills
Windows Macintosh and Linux Operating Systems, Microsoft Office suite, Apple iWork suite, Logic, Cubase, Nuendo, Propellerhead Reason, Adobe Photoshop

Music Skills
Composition. Classical piano (advanced); Electric bass guitar (advanced); Electric/Acoustic guitar (advanced); Drums (intermediate); electronics (building and circuit bending); Tampouras (similar to Saz, traditional Greek musical instrument); vocals (advanced)

Languages
Greek (native), English & French (fluent), German (basic)
University of Oxford, Language Centre 2009-2010
Academic writing