In my doctoral research, I study formations of fat and disabled corporeality in singing performance. I am developing an analytical approach that combines concepts of bodynormativity, affect theory, new materialist thinking an intersectional analysis. My research material consists of video recordings of live musical performances, e.g. concerts, televised singing contests, and musical theatre performances.

My aim is to explore what kinds of affective experiences emerge in marginalised singers' performances and how they are produced. I discuss what kinds of roles and subject positions are available to fat and/or disabled singers. I analyse how processes of corporeal and aesthetic othering and assigning hierarchical value to different bodies are present in the performances. I am especially interested in the significance of the co-formations of physical appearance and the singing voice to the cultural meanings and affective impacts that a peformance carries.