Kate Kennedy is one of the foremost critics of twentieth-century music of her generation and is frequently heard on Radio 3. She is an Associate of the English Faculty at Oxford, where she lectures on twentieth-century literature and biography. She is the author of Dweller in Shadows: A Life of Ivor Gurney. She is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a Supernumerary Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, co-director of the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing, and director of the Centre for the Study of Women Composers.