B.A., Interdisciplinary Studies, Hampshire College
M.A., Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D., Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley

My work participates in the emerging field of sound studies, focusing on discourses of listening and acoustics in 20^th and 21^st-century literature, philosophy, media, and music.  I am interested in American and British modernism, the work of Faulkner and Conrad in particular, and what practices and philosophies of listening in the 20^th century and beyond can tell us about the modernist novel as form.  I am also interested in the digital humanities as an emerging discipline, and how new media practices can unlock the sounds and voices of modernism. I am a radio producer, practicing musician, and core-collaborator of “Digital Yoknapatawpha,” an online mapping of the works of Faulkner. 

The Epistemology of Listening in Film and New Media
Audiotopias: Hearing the Nation in Literature

"A Sinister Resonance: Vibration, Sound, and the Birth of Conrad's Marlow" (forthcoming in Qui Parle, fall 2012 and Vibratory Modernism (ed. Shelley Trower, Palgrave, 2013)

65 W. 11^th St. 063

Wednesdays 3:30-5:30 and by appointment

Modernist studies 
Conrad and Faulkner 
Sound and the archive 
Theories of subjectivity and memory 
Music and literature
Rhetoric and literature
Race and literature

Digital Yoknapatawpha, core-collaborator
William Faulkner Society
Joseph Conrad Society of America
American Comparative Literature Association

"Lending a Voice: Rosa Coldfield's Transembodied Media Acoustics," Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, 2012
"'Continued Vibration'': Conrad, Faulkner, and the Aural Physics of the Novel," MLA, the Conrad and Faulkner Societies joint panel, 2012
"Miscegenating Sound: Literary History and the Howl in Faulkner," MSA, 2010 

Mellon Fellow, 2000-2001
Jacob K. Javits Fellow, 2001-2005