PhD, Culture and Communication, New York University

Her teaching and research address relationships between media and spatial theory and practice -- particularly the links among mass media, architecture and urban planning -- and connections between media and contemporary art. Her work is motivated by a desire to look “beyond the screen” or page, to the larger arena in which media operates, and to the fruitful convergences between media and other fields of creative production and scholarship. Recently a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania, she has also taught at NYU, Parsons The New School for Design, and Rutgers University. She is the author of The New Downtown Library: Designing With Communities (University of Minnesota Press, 2007), which was supported by a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Other work has appeared in the Journal of Architectural Education, Invisible Culture, The Senses & Society, In the Site of Sound, and Public Culture.

• Between Media & Architecture
• Foundations of Media Theory/Media Studies: Ideas
• Immediacy: Online Journal
• Media Education Lab
• Media Exhibition Design
• Media Space/Public Space
• Research Methods inMedia Studies
• Sound and Space
• Understanding Media Studies

• Silent, Invisible City: Mediating Urban Experience for the Other Senses in Mediacity: Situations, Practices and Encounters (Weimar: Bauhaus University, forthcoming)
• with Barry Salmon, Sound Studies: Framing Noise in Music, Sound, and the Moving Image (forthcoming)
• Font of a Nation: Creating a National Graphic Identity for Qatar in Public Culture 20:3 (Fall 2008)
• Resonant Texts: Sounds of the Contemporary American Public Library in The Senses & Society (Fall 2007)
• The New Downtown Library: Designing with Communities (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007)

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• The relationships between media and spatial theory and practice -- particularly the links between mass media and architecture and urban planning -- and connections between media and contemporary art.
• Additional areas of interest include, generally, media and design history and theory; and, more specifically, media form and materiality; media reception (especially reading) and the spaces in which we store, access and consume media; textual theory; and media and spatial poetics.

• Society for Cinema and Media Studies
• American Studies Association
• College Art Association

• European Science Foundation Travel Grant, 2006
• New School Faculty Development Grant, 2005-20066
• Graham Foundation for the Advanced Studies in Fine Arts Research Grant, 2003
• Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2002-2004