Polly Paulusma

Polly Paulusma is an external supervisor for the Cambridge English Faculty and currently teaches Practical Criticism and supervises students with special research interests in literature and song. Having read English at Cambridge in the 1990s, she has recently completed her PhD at UEA on how Angela Carter’s folk singing influenced her writing. She has had three articles accepted for academic publication.

She has also been teaching A-level students one-to-one since 2008 and prepares students for university entrance.

She has been a signed recording artist since 2003, releasing albums on Bjork's label One Little Independent (formerly One Little Indian) and then founding her own folk label Wild Sound which has supported the work of nine other independent folk and acoustic artists.  Her albums have achieved international critical acclaim and her songs have been published by Sony/ATV in Los Angeles.  She has toured the USA, the UK and Europe supporting Bob Dylan, Jamie Cullum, Coldplay and Marianne Faithfull in her travels. She continues to record and release records with One Little Independent, and her next release will be an album of the folk songs that influenced Carter, a musical extension of her research.

She brings all her music-making experience to her inter-disciplinary research and teaching practice.