Dr Polly Paulusma

Dr Polly Paulusma is an English singer-songwriter scholar, touring recording artist, record producer, label founder, author and teacher. She tutors in songwriting and literature for the University of Cambridge and in songwriting for the Institute of Contemporary Music Performance. She is a Bye-Fellow in English at Murray Edwards College Cambridge. She has released eleven albums to date with One Little Independent Records, supported Bob Dylan, played Glastonbury, and founded her own folk label imprint Wild Sound. Her songs have been published by Sony/ATV in the United States. Her research into Angela Carter’s folk singing led to the publication of her monograph Angela Carter and Folk Music: Invisible Music, Prose and the Art of Canorography by Bloomsbury in 2023, and she has contributed chapters to Angela Carter's Pyrotechnics: A Union of Contraries (Bloomsbury 2022) and other academic books. Her research into songfulness in literature has also been published as articles in Contemporary Women’s Writing, English, and Folk Music Journal.