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Amanda Haste is a Franco-British researcher and academic translator and was President of NCIS from 2015 to 2022. She spent 20 years as a professional musician and music educator, and holds a PhD in Musicology; from 2015 to 2023 she was contingent faculty at Aix-Marseille University, France where she taught courses including Practical Translation, Literary Translation, English as a Musicological Language, and Research Skills in English at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. Her research is multidisciplinary, and encompasses music, language, and identity. Dr Haste is an active peer reviewer and editor, and currently serves as Humanities Editor of The Independent Scholar. She has presented her work at conferences in England, Scotland, France, Belgium, Austria, Germany, Poland, Slovenia and the USA, and has been an invited lecturer in France, England, France and Scotland. As well as journal articles and book chapters, she has several substantial entries in the two-volume Women in World Religions: Faith & Culture Across History, ed. Susan de Gaia (ABC-CLIO, 2018). In 2015 Dr Haste co-edited (with Professor James Block of DePaul University, USA) Constructing Identity in an Age of Globalization (Paris: Ex Modio), Global Cuisines by Independent Scholars: A Learned Cookbook (NCIS, 2022) with Helen Ross and Linda Baines, and the NCIS Guide for Independent Scholars (NCIS, 2024) with Linda Baines. Her first monograph was Music and Identity in Twenty-First-Century Monasticism (Routledge, 2023), and she is currently researching another on the British in Marseille 1850-1914.
As a freelance translator (French-English) and proofreader (French-English and English-English) Dr Haste specialises in academic, musical, historical and social sciences material. She holds the Diploma in Translation and is a Chartered Linguist and a Qualified Translator member of the Institute of Translation and Interpreting. She copy edited and proof read Villa-Lobos, the Music: An Analysis of His Style by L.M. Peppercorn, transl. Stefan de Haan (London: Kahn & Averill, 1991), and transcribed and translated archival material for the six-book series Convents in Exile 1600-1800, ed. Caroline Bowden (Pickering & Chatto, 2013). Her translations have been published as academic articles and books in numerous disciplines, and she regularly transcribes and translates manuscript archival sources for researchers in history and cultural anthropology.
Current research areas:
Music and identity, language and identity, translation in language teaching, contemporary monasticism
Recent scholarly activity:
Co-edited (with Linda Baines) NCIS Guide to Independent Scholars (NCIS, 2024)
Recent publications:
BOOKS
2024 (Ed. with Linda Baines) NCIS Guide for Independent Scholars (National Coalition of Independent Scholars)
2023 Music and Identity in Twenty-First-Century Monasticism (Routledge: October 2023) https://www.routledge.com/Music-and-Identity-in-Twenty-First-Century-Monasticism/Haste/p/book/9781032441788
2022 (Ed. with Helen Ross and Linda Baines) Global Cuisines by Independent Scholars (Battleboro, VT: National Coalition of Independent Scholars, 2022) https://www.ncis.org/sites/default/files/NCIS%20COOKBOOK_Dec2022.pdf?fbclid=IwAR0rEVmY--OIGgbx9rauG53QZ2FD_SMWatKgbcwUdQTaACfbKhlShtYgZko
2018 All Saints and Sailors: A History of the English Church in Marseille [2014]. Third revised edition (All Saints Anglican Church, Marseille).
2015 (Ed. with James Block, eds.) Constructing Identity in an Age of Globalization (Paris: Ex Modio)
ARTICLES
Articles/Chapters
2024 ‘What is an Independent Scholar...and how do they survive?’ By Amanda J. Haste and Linda Baines. NCIS Guide for Independent Scholars, ed. Amanda J. Haste and Linda Baines (National Coalition of Independent Scholars), pp. 7-12.
2024 ‘Thinking across boundaries: Interdisciplinarity in independent research.’ NCIS Guide for Independent Scholars, ed. Amanda J. Haste and Linda Baines (National Coalition of Independent Scholars), pp. 94-97.
2024 ‘Ensuring the rigor of your research.’ NCIS Guide for Independent Scholars, ed. Amanda J. Haste and Linda Baines (National Coalition of Independent Scholars), pp. 145-151.
2024 ‘Staying well: Self-care for Independent Scholars.’ By Amanda J. Haste and Linda Baines. NCIS Guide for Independent Scholars, ed. Amanda J. Haste and Linda Baines (National Coalition of Independent Scholars), pp. 164-174.
2023 ‘Entente musicale.’ ITI Bulletin (Jan-Feb 2024). Institute of Translation and Interpreting. pp. 12-15.
2022 ‘New wine in old bottles: Creating a musical repertoire for a new religious community.’ Global Cuisines by Independent Scholars, A Learned Cookbook, ed. Helen Ross, Amanda Haste and Linda Baines (Battleboro, VT: National Coalition of Independent Scholars), pp. 50-53.
2022 ‘For those in peril on the sea…And on Land: A Brief History of the Mission to Seamen in Marseille.’ Global Cuisines by Independent Scholars, A Learned Cookbook, ed. Helen Ross, Amanda Haste and Linda Baines (Battleboro, VT: National Coalition of Independent Scholars), pp. 35-41.
2021 'Using Translation as a Pedagogical Tool in Teaching English to Musicians and Musicologists.' The Independent Scholar Vol. 8 (December 2021), pp. 33-46.
2020 ‘The British Colony in Marseille: Meeting the Challenges of Migrant Life 1850-1900.’ The Independent Scholar Vol. 6 (February 2020), pp. 21-32.
2019 ‘A Musician Abroad: Linguistic Challenges in Establishing a Musician Identity.’ Language, Identity and Community. Lodz Studies in Language 62 (Berlin: Peter Lang, 2019), pp. 127-141.
2018 "A language 'clearly understanded of the people': The construction of an Anglo-Catholic linguistic identity." Languages of Religion: Exploring the Politics of the Sacred. Ed. Sipra Mukherjee (Routledge).
2018 ‘Chastity.’ Women in World Religions: Faith and Culture across History. Ed. Susan De Gaia. Santa Barbara, CA; Denver, CO; Oxford, Great Britain: ABC-CLIO. Vol. 1, pp. 175-6.
2018 ‘Contemporary Women’s Monastic Orders.’ Women in World Religions: Faith and Culture across History. Ed. Susan De Gaia. Santa Barbara, CA; Denver, CO; Oxford, Great Britain: ABC-CLIO. Vol. 1, pp. 230-231.
2018 ‘Marriage, Divorce, Widowhood.’ Women in World Religions: Faith and Culture across History. Ed. Susan De Gaia. Santa Barbara, CA; Denver, CO; Oxford, Great Britain: ABC-CLIO. Vol. 1, pp. 213-216.
2018 ‘Monastic Life.’ Women in World Religions: Faith and Culture across History. Ed. Susan De Gaia. Santa Barbara, CA; Denver, CO; Oxford, Great Britain: ABC-CLIO. Vol. 1, pp. 227-9.
2018 ‘Mystics.’ Co-authored with Susan de Gaia. WWomen in World Religions: Faith and Culture across History. Ed. Susan De Gaia. Santa Barbara, CA; Denver, CO; Oxford, Great Britain: ABC-CLIO. Vol. 1, pp. 239-242.
2017 ‘Crossing boundaries: Establishing and communicating a cross-cultural musician identity.’ The Independent Scholar Vol. 3 (June 2017), pp. 26-45.
2016 “Conflict and reparation: The agency of music in modern monastic community dynamics.” Music and Arts in Action Vol. 5, Issue 2 (September 2016): 39-51.
2016 "Getting the message across: Translation issues in academic writing." The Independent Scholar Vol. 2: 18-27.
2015 “A third gender?: Expression of gender identity in celibate monasticism through words and music.” Constructing Identity in an Age of Globalization (Paris: Ex Modio).
2014 "Cyberchant: Medium and message in the computerised notation of newly composed monastic music." Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology - CIM14 (Berlin: National Institute of Musicological Research)
2014 “Buying into the Monastic Experience: Are Chant Recordings the Real Thing?” In The Paradox of Authenticity in a Globalized World, ed. Russell Cobb (New York: Palgrave MacMillan).
2013 “Prayerful silence and creative response in twenty-first-century monasticism.” Culture and Religion. Vol. 14, Issue 3: 268-288. First published on line 30 January 2013
2012 “The Lord’s Prayer as song: Performance, gesture and meaning.” Journal of Religion, Media & Digital Culture, issue 4, volume 1 (December)
http://jrmdc.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Haste_Dec2012.pdf
For a complete list of publications, please see attached CV
Forthcoming research:
Monograph on the British in Marseille (in preparation)
Other activities:
Academic translation (French-English)