Stephanie Hernandez

Stephanie Hernandez is a PhD student of Literature and Music at the University of Liverpool. Using interdisciplinary approaches, she is researching the echoes of Romanticism in the popular music of the 1960s and 1970s, including Marianne Faithfull, The Doors and Patti Smith. Her research incorporates literary analysis, musicology, concepts of performance and fashion history.

She has delivered the presentations 'Beatle Wives and the Curation of the Beatles Legacy' (PCA/ACA, 2023) and 'Joni Mitchell's Blue and Mental Health' (Popular Music and Wellbeing, 2023). At the University of Liverpool, she has participated in the IASPM Conference (2022) and the Tay Day (Liverpool's Version) Conference (2024).

While completing her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in English Literature, Stephanie worked at both The Beatles Story, Liverpool and Handel & Hendrix in London, which fostered her interest in the cultural legacy of historically musical spaces.

Stephanie is also a music journalist who has written for Rolling Stone UK, Warner Music UK and others. Her academic publications include 'Yoko Ono's Avant Garde Humour', in The Beatles and Humour (2023), and 'Marketing: How Gamification Produced a Vinyl-Mania' in the Journal of Popular Music Studies (2021).