Lola Abs Osta earned a PhD in English (2024) from the University of Leicester, UK. She explored intermedial relationships between Lord Byron’s poetry and program music. This interest was initiated at an interdisciplinary conference at the Lebanese University where she presented her original song recording (2015) based on T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land. Member of the Byron Society, London, since 2017, the International Association of Word and Music Studies since 2020, and BARS since 2023, she has presented papers at a few conferences. She has a teaching licence (2009) and a diploma of advanced studies (2014) in English Language and Literature from the Lebanese University. In her dissertation she tackled hybrid identity and trauma in Toni Morrison’s novels. Alongside academics, she graduated with a master’s degree in piano (2015) from the LNHCM, Beirut, and several diplomas from Trinity College, London (until 2008), receiving several awards. She has taught the piano at the Music College of St. Joseph School, Lebanon, to various levels and performed on stage. She lectured on English at high school and university levels in Lebanon, such as the Lebanese University (2015-2017) and contributed to the Romanticism module, the faculty conferences, and the music life of University of Leicester. She currently works at a high school in Manchester. Her research interests include Lord Byron; Hector Berlioz; Franz Liszt; word-music relations; Toni Morrison; African-American criticism.