Under history, memory and forgetting. 
Under memory and forgetting, life.
But writing a life is another story.
Incompletion.

§ Paul Ricoeur” (Memory, History, Forgetting, Paul Ricœur)


Keri currently teaches as an Assistant Professor of Music at Hong Kong Baptist University and serves also as the BA Programme Director in Music.

Keri holds a PhD in Musicology from King’s College London and the University of Hong Kong. Her research focuses on the history of sensibility, Enlightenment studies, 18th-century aesthetics, musical semiotics and topic theory, Joseph Haydn, and keyboard music. Her interests encompass a wide range of topics that seek to cross the boundaries of music, history, philosophy, psychology, theology, and literature. Keri’s research has been published in journals such as Music & Letters, International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music, Journal of Musicology, Journal of Musicological Research, The Eighteenth-Century: Theory and Interpretation, Religion and the Arts, HAYDN: Online Journal of the Haydn Society of North America, and Journal of Tolkien Research.

Keri is currently working on a project titled “Enlightened Sensibility: A Musical History” funded by the Hong Kong Research Grants Council. She is the recipient of the 2025/26 Friends of the Meeter Center Research Fellowship and the 2026/27 Bodleian Visiting Fellowship, as an Albi Rosenthal Visiting Fellow in Music.