Shawn VanCour
Department of Media, Culture, and Communication
New York University – Steinhardt School
239 Greene St, 8th Floor
New York, NY 10003
Email: [email protected]
Academic Positions
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York
University – Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, New York, NY,
Fall 2013–present
Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Lecturer in Film and Media Studies, Film and Media Studies
Program, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, Fall 2010–Fall 2012
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Cinema and Media Studies, Carleton College,
Northfield, MN, Fall 2008–Spring 2010
Associate Lecturer and Instructor in Media and Cultural Studies, Department of Communication
Arts, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, Spring 2005–Spring 2007
Education
Ph.D., Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2008
Major in Media and Cultural Studies, Distributed Minor in Critical Theory. Honors on exams.
Dissertation: “The Sounds of ‘Radio’: Aesthetic Formations of 1920s American Broadcasting” (Winner of Broadcast Education Association’s Outstanding Dissertation Award for 2009)
M.A., Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2002
Major in Media and Cultural Studies
B.A., Comparative Literature, Binghamton University, State University of New York, 1999
Minor in Cinema. Graduated summa cum laude.
Research Interests
• Media aesthetics
• Media industries and production studies
• Sound media and audio culture
• Film and television studies
• History and theory of emerging technologies
• Critical media historiography
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Related Work Experience
Eastern Regional Director and National Grants Director, Radio Preservation Task Force,
National Recording Preservation Board, United States Library of Congress, 2014-2016. Directed
40-member research team to collect data on relevant audio collections for NRPB project to
preserve recordings of local radio broadcasts, and coordinated grantwriting activities of member
archives to support preservation, infrastructure development, and educational access initiatives.
Archival Assistant, Moving Image Research Collections, University Library System, University
of South Carolina, 2012-2013. Processed film and audio collections of WIS-TV producer Jim
Covington and Fox Movietone/NBC newsreel cameraman Bill Birch.
Production Manager and Head Producer, Sound Vision Audiovisual Services, Burlington, VT,
1999-2000. Produced commercial television spots and created video packages and multimedia
presentations for trade shows and corporate conventions.
Television News and Commercial Production Assistant, WPTZ News Channel 5 (NBC affiliate),
Plattsburgh, NY, 1998. Scripted and produced commercial television spots for local clients,
assisted in studio and remote news broadcasts.
Books
Making Television: Inventing the Art and Craft of American Television, 1945-1960 (in
progress). Examines the professionalization of creative labor and development of dominant
production norms within the postwar television industry.
Making Radio: Early Radio Production and the Rise of Modern Sound Culture, 1920-1930
(Oxford University Press, forthcoming). Examines production techniques and performance styles
for prenetwork-era radio broadcasting and their impact on related spheres of electric phonograph
recording and sound cinema.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
“How to Make a YouTube Hit and Other Stories: Defining Aesthetic Norms for Online Video”
(in progress)
“Digital Logics of Old-Time Radio: The Virtual Afterlife of a Dead Medium” (in progress)
“Proto-Convergence, Variety Entertainment, and the Vernacular Aesthetic of Speed: Listening in
on Samuel Rothafel’s Capitol Theater Show, 1920-1925” (in progress)
“Educating Tomorrow's Media Workers: Television Instruction in American Institutions of
Higher Learning, 1945-1960" (under review)
“Eat What You Hear: Gustasonic Discourses and the Material Culture of Commercial Sound
Recording,” coauthored with Kyle Barnett (under review)
“Early Radio Listening as Modernist Practice: Ambient Radio and the Aesthetic of Distraction,”
Modernist Cultures, Vol. 10, Issue 1 (2015), Special Issue on Modernism and Radio, pp. 6-35
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“Popularizing the Classics: Radio’s Role in the American Music Appreciation Movement, 19221934,” Media, Culture and Society, Vol. 31, Issue 2 (March, 2009), pp. 289-307
Book Chapters
“First-Person Singular: Radio Narration and Problems of Literary Adaptation in Orson Welles’s
War of the Worlds,” invited chapter in The Next Century with Orson Welles, ed. James Gilmore
(under consideration, University of Illinois Press)
“The Emergence of Television’s Sonic Repertoire: Sound Style and Audio Technique in Early
U.S. Television Drama,” invited chapter in The Routledge Companion to Screen Music and
Sound, ed. Miguel Mera, Ron Sadoff, and Ben Winters (forthcoming, Routledge 2016)
“Norman Corwin on Television: A Transmedia Approach to Style Historiography,” invited
chapter in Anatomy of Sound: Norman Corwin and Media Authorship, ed. Jacob Smith and Neil
Verma (forthcoming, University of California Press, 2016)
“Radio and the History of Technology: Inventing American Broadcasting and the Rise of Social
Constructionism,” invited chapter in A Companion to the History of American Broadcasting, ed.
Aniko Bodroghkozy (forthcoming, Wiley-Blackwell, 2016
“Media Diffusion: Understanding How New Things Happen,” invited article in The Sage
Encyclopedia of Communication Research Methods, ed. Mike Allen (forthcoming, Thousand
Oaks: Sage, 2016)
“Spectacular Sound: Classical Music Programming and the Problem of ‘Visual Interest’ in Early
U.S. Television,” invited chapter in Music and the Broadcast Experience: Performance,
Production, and Audiences, ed. James Deaville and Christina Baade (forthcoming, Oxford
University Press, 2015)
“TV Music and the History of Television Sound,” invited chapter in Music in Television:
Listening to the Small Screen, ed. James Deaville (Routledge, 2011), pp. 57-79
“Arnheim on Radio: Materialtheorie and Beyond,” invited chapter in Arnheim for Film and
Media Studies, ed. Scott Higgins (Routledge AFI Series, 2010), pp. 177-194
“Network Nation: Writing Broadcasting History as Cultural History,” chapter with Michele
Hilmes in NBC: America’s Network, ed. Michele Hilmes (Berkeley: University of California
Press, 2007), pp. 308-322
Book Reviews
“Selling Sounds: The Commercial Revolution in American Music, by David Suisman,” invited
review for Technology and Culture, Vol. 55, Issue 3 (July 2014), pp. 758-759
“Radio's Hidden Voice: The Origins of Public Broadcasting in the United States, by Hugh
Slotten,” invited review for Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, Vol. 54, Issue 3
(September, 2010), pp. 542-543
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“Radio: An Art of Sound, by Rudolf Arnheim,” invited Radio Studies Retrospective review for
The Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast and Audio Media, Vol. 6, Issue 2
(December 2008), pp. 188-190
Other Writings
“Ghost Stories and Dirty Optics: Notes on the Hilmesian Closeup,” invited contribution to
special series on the life and work of Michele Hilmes, Antenna: Responses to Media and
Culture, June 10, 2015, http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/
“The Informal Economy of the Amateur Archive: Collectors as Cultural Intermediaries,” Flow,
Vol. 21 (Special Issue: Radio Preservation Task Force), May 19, 2015,
http://flowtv.org/2015/05/the-informal-economy-of-the-amateur-archive/
“A Hard Act to Follow: WOTW and the Challenges of Literary Adaptation,” invited contribution
for War of the Worlds 75th anniversary retrospective series, Antenna: Responses to Media and
Culture, October 15, 2013, http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/
“New Directions in Media Studies: The Aesthetic Turn,” invited contribution for Antenna:
Responses to Media and Culture, February 11, 2013, http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/
“Norman Corwin: Radio at the Intersection of Art and Commerce,” guest contributor for Norman
Corwin retrospective series, Sounding Out: The Sound Studies Blog, July 30, 2012,
http://soundstudiesblog.com/
Academic Teaching Experience
Visiting Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, Department of Media,
Culture, and Communication, New York University – Steinhardt School, New York, NY, Fall
2013 – present
Courses Taught:
MCC-UE 0014: Media and Cultural Analysis
MCC-UE 1003: Introduction to Digital Media
MCC-UE 1006: Television History
MCC-UE 1037: Music and Media
MCC-UE 1200: Sound in Screen Media
MCC-UE 1405: Copyright, Commerce, and Culture
MCC-UE 1717: Listening: Noise, Sound, and Music
INDIV-UG 1901: Independent Study in Game Design
Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Lecturer in Film and Media Studies, Film and Media Studies
Program, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, Fall 2010-Fall 2012
Courses Taught:
FILM 110: Media Culture
FILM 240: Introduction to Film and Media Studies
FILM 300: Film and Media History
FILM 473: Film and Media Theory
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FILM 510B: Sound History
FILM 510C: Creative Media Industries
FILM 510T: Television History
FILM 511S: Critical Methods in Sound Studies
Visiting Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Studies, Carleton College, MN, Fall 2008Spring 2010
Courses Taught:
CAMS 110: Introduction to Cinema and Media Studies
CAMS 241: History of American Broadcasting
CAMS 248: Critical Industry Studies
CAMS 252: Critical Approaches to Television Studies
CAMS 253: History of Sound Reproduction
CAMS 254: History and Theory of Emerging Media
CAMS 255: Sound Studies
CAMS 340: Media Theory
CAMS 391: Independent Study in Media and Cultural Theory
Associate Lecturer and Instructor in Media and Cultural Studies, Communication Arts
Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Spring 2005–Summer 2006
Courses Taught:
CA 450: History of Broadcasting
CA 451: TV Theory and Criticism
CA 250: Radio, TV, and Film as Mass Media
CA 100: Introduction to Speech Composition
Selected Conference Presentations
“Literary Adaptation and the Problem of Voiceover Narration in War of the Worlds.” Paper
presented at Orson Welles: A Centennial Celebration and Symposium, Indiana University,
Bloomington, IN, April 29-May 3, 2015.
“Eat What You Hear: A Short History of the Gustasonic,” Paper presented at EMP Pop
Conference, Experience Music Project Museum, Seattle, WA, April 16-19, 2015.
“Educating Tomorrow’s Television Workers: Early TV Training Programs and the
Professionalization of Below-the-Line Labor, 1945-1960.” Paper presented at Society for
Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Montreal, Quebec, March 25-29, 2015.
“A Production-Oriented Approach to Early Broadcasting.” Presentation for workshop on Sound
Work: Radio Production Cultures, Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Montreal,
Quebec, March 25-29, 2015.
“In Search of Spectacular Sound: Aesthetic Innovation in Classical Music Programming on Early
U.S. Television.” Paper presented at Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Seattle,
WA, March 19-23, 2014
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“Tracking Edible Phonography: Record Eating, Collecting, and Musical Taste.” Paper presented
with Kyle Barnett (Bellarmine University) at International Association for the Study of Popular
Music Conference, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, March 13-16, 2014
“OTR as New Media? Digital Logics and Cultural Contradictions of Old-Time Radio.” Paper
presented at What Is Radio? Conference, School of Journalism and Communication, University
of Oregon, Portland, OR, April 25-27, 2013
“Corwin on Television: A Transmedia Approach to Style Historiography.” Paper presented for
preconstituted panel at Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Chicago, IL, March
6-10, 2013
“Reconstructing Early Radio Genres: The Case of Musical Variety.” Paper presented for
preconstituted panel at Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Boston, MA, March
21-25, 2012
“Visualizing the Classics: Debates over Classical Music Programming in Early U.S. Television.”
Paper presented for seminar session on Music and American Television, Society for American
Music Conference, Charlotte, NC, March 15-18, 2012
“Sounding Out Postwar American TV: The Emergence of U.S. Television’s Sonic Repertoire,
1945-1955.” Paper presented at Broadcasting in the 1950s, AHRC Research Network and
Aberystwyth Centre for Media History International Research Conference, University of Wales
Study Centre, Gregynog Hall, Mid Wales, UK, July 20-22, 2011
“Ambient Radio: Aural Spectacle, Secondary Listening, and Acoustic Flanerie in Early
Twentieth Century American Broadcasting.” Paper presented for preconstituted panel at Society
for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, New Orleans, LA, March 10-13, 2011
“Announcing Radio: Defining Preferred Forms of Radio Speech For Early Twentieth Century
American Broadcasting.” Paper presented for preconstituted panel at Society for Cinema and
Media Studies Conference, Los Angeles, CA, March 17-21, 2010
“The ‘Roxy’ Formula: Samuel Rothafel’s Capitol Theater Program and the Roots of American
Radio’s Vaudeville Aesthetic, 1922-1925.” Paper presented for preconstituted panel at The
Radio Conference: A Transnational Forum, Conference of the International Radio Studies
Network, York University, Toronto, Ontario, July 27-30, 2009
“‘Staging the Unseen’: Early Radio Music Production and the Evolution of Broadcasting's
Studio Art, 1920-1930.” Paper presented for preconstituted panel at Broadcast Education
Association Convention, Las Vegas, NV, April 22-25, 2009
“‘The Newest Dramatic Art’: A Short History of the Early Radio Play, 1922-1929.” Paper
presented for preconstituted panel at Broadcast Education Association Convention, Las Vegas,
NV, April 16-19, 2008
“‘From Dialogue to High Drama’: Aesthetic Transformations of the Early American Radio
Play.” Paper presented for Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Philadelphia, PA,
March 6-8, 2008
“Engineering the New Radio Sound: 1920s Radio Loudspeakers and the Quest for Tonal
Fidelity.” Paper presented for Sound in the Era of Mechanical Reproduction Research
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Conference, Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society, Hagley Museum and
Library, Wilmington, DE, November 29-30, 2007
“Rise of the Radio Impresario: Samuel Rothafel’s Aesthetic of Speed and the Transformations of
Twentieth-Century American Culture.” Paper presented for Cultural Studies Association
Conference, Portland, OR, April 19-21, 2007
“Inventing the Radio Continuity Program: Aesthetic and Industrial Innovations in 1920s
American Broadcasting." Paper presented for Popular Culture Association/American Culture
Association International Conference, Radio Interest Group, Boston, MA, April 4-7, 2007
“Bridging the Cultural Divide: 1920s American Radio and the Popularization of Classical
Music.” Paper presented for Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Chicago, IL,
March 8-11, 2007
“From Headsets to Table Talkers: Loudspeaker Technologies and the New Sounds of 1920s
American Radio.” Paper presented for Merging Methodologies 3, Graduate Student Conference
for Communications and Media Research, Madison, WI, February 10-11, 2006
“‘Radio Enters the Home’? Defamiliarizing the Domestication of 1920s Radio.” Paper presented
for preconstituted panel at Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, London, UK,
March 31-April 3, 2005
“The Radio Voice in the Culture of Personality: Toward an Aesthetics of Early Radio.” Paper
presented for preconstituted panel at Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference,
Minneapolis, MN, March 6-9, 2003
Selected Lectures and Talks
“Remembering Radio: Broadcasting Before Television.” Invited talk for seminar in Television
History and Form, Department of Media, Culture & Communication, New York University, New
York, NY, February 3, 2015
“Creating Invisible Fictions: Techniques of Sound Drama.” Funded talk for Exploring Radio
Forms, interdisciplinary sound studies seminar, Cinema Department and Department of English,
Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, October 14, 2014
“Making Radio: A Production-Oriented Approach to Early Broadcasting Aesthetics.” Invited
talk at Special Collections for Media and Mass Culture, Library of American Broadcasting,
University of Maryland, March 7, 2014
“Doing Sound Historiography without the Sound: Breaking the Silence on Early Radio.” Funded
research talk for senior seminar in Archival Analysis, Department of Media Studies, Catholic
University of America, March 6, 2014
“Spectral Radio: For the Love of a Dead Medium.” Funded research talk for War of the Worlds
at 75 Speaker Series, Harpur College of Arts and Sciences, Binghamton University, Binghamton,
NY, October 30, 2013
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“Missing Links in Mass Communication Theory: Rudolf Arnheim and the Aesthetic Agenda.”
Invited Skype presentation for Communication 509: Graduate Seminar in Media and Mass
Communication Theory, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, October 2, 2013
“The History of American Television.” Invited talk at University Honors School, University of
South Carolina, Columbia, SC, April 16, 2011
“Media Studies: Meanings and Methods.” Guest lecture for AMST 345: Theory and Practice of
American Studies, Carleton College, Northfield, MN, February 16, 2010
“Sound Designs: Radio Broadcasting and the Transformation of Early Twentieth Century Audio
Culture.” Invited talk for Athenaeum Lecture Series, Carleton College, Northfield, MN, October
27, 2009
“Speaking of the Phonograph: Talking Machines as Early 20th Century Popular Entertainment.”
Guest presentation for CAMS 210: Film History, Carleton College, MN, May 14, 2009
“Media Criticism and American Studies: Some Methodological Reflections.” Guest lecture for
AMST 345: Theory and Practice of American Studies, Carleton College, Northfield, MN,
February 17, 2009
“Reinventing American Radio, 1920-1930: Aesthetic Transformations of a Medium in
Transition.” Guest presentation for CA 950: Sound and Screen in the Multi-Platform Age,
Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison, March 3, 2008
“Pistol Shots, Door Slams, and Radio Kisses: Early American Radio Drama’s Aesthetic of Aural
Realism.” Invited paper presented for Audio Culture in the Visual Era, Andrew W. Mellon
Workshop, Center for the Humanities, University of Wisconsin-Madison, December 3, 2007
“On the Victory Front: The Rhetoric of Wartime Radio, 1940-1945.” Guest lecture for CA 450:
History of American Broadcasting, Department of Communication Arts, University of
Wisconsin-Madison, October 11, 2007
“Commercial Broadcasting in the 1920s and 1930s: The Rise of Network Radio.” Guest lecture
for CA 250: Radio, Television, and Film as Mass Media, Department of Communication Arts,
University of Wisconsin-Madison, February 6, 2007
Conference Staff and Administration
Panel Organizer and Moderator, “Preserving Radio History: Activities of the Library of
Congress’s Radio Preservation Task Force,” Orphan Film Symposium, Packard Campus for
Audio-Visual Conservation, United States Library of Congress, Culpeper, VA, April 6-9, 2016
Faculty Reviewer, History Division Research Paper Competition, Broadcast Education
Association Convention, Las Vegas, Nevada, April 7-10, 2013
Panel Organizer and Co-Chair, “The Aesthetic Turn in Radio Studies,” Society for Cinema and
Media Studies Conference, Boston, MA, March 21-25, 2012
Faculty Reviewer, History Division Research Paper Competition, Broadcast Education
Association Convention, Las Vegas, Nevada, April 9-13, 2011
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Panel Chair, “Documenting the Documentary: Postwar Public Affairs Programming,” On
Archives! Conference on Media and Theater History, Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater
Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison, July 6-9, 2010
Panel Organizer and Co-Chair, “Radio Voices: Technologies, Performance Styles, and Politics of
Voice in Early U.S. Broadcasting,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Los
Angeles, CA, March 17-21, 2010
Panel Chair, “Latest Trends in Radio Studies,” The Radio Conference: A Transnational Forum,
Conference of the International Radio Studies Network, York University, Toronto, Ontario, July
27-30, 2009
Conference Staff, Console-ing Passions International Conference on Television, Audio, New
Media, and Feminism, Milwaukee, WI, May 25-27, 2006
Panel Organizer, “Radio Outside the Home: Early American Radio (1920-1950) and Its ExtraDomestic Contexts,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, London, UK, March
31-April 3, 2005
Conference Staff, The Radio Conference: A Transnational Forum, Madison, WI, July 28-31,
2003
Selected Fellowships, Honors, and Awards
Professional Development Award, Office of the Dean, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education,
and Human Development, New York University, December 2014. Archival research funding for
project, “Teaching Television: The Development of Courses in Early Television Instruction,
1940-1960.
Professional Development Award, Office of the Dean, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education,
and Human Development, New York University, December 2014. Archival research funding for
project, Aesthetic Transformations of American Broadcasting, 1945-1960.”
American Heritage Center Research Award, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, Summer
2014. Awarded for study of collected papers of early network television writers, directors, and
producers.
Co-Curricular Funding Award, Office of the Dean, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and
Human Development, New York University, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014. Curriculum
development award for creation of media activism workshop, MC-UE 14: Media & Cultural
Analysis.
Co-Curricular Funding Award, Office of the Dean, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and
Human Development, New York University, Spring 2015, Fall 2015. Curriculum development
award for creation of workshop on noise music for MCC-UE 1037: Music & Media.
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Film and Media Studies, Film and Media Studies Program,
University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, Fall 2010–Spring 2012. Awarded for twin research
projects, “Making Radio: Inventing the Art of Aural Broadcasting, 1920-1930,” and “From
Radio to Television: Aesthetic Transformations of American Broadcasting, 1945-1960.”
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Humanities Center Research Award, Carleton Humanities Center, Carleton College, Northfield,
MN, Winter 2010. Awarded for research project, “The History of Television Sound.”
Supervision of one student researcher.
Kenneth Harwood Outstanding Dissertation Award, National Award for Outstanding
Dissertation on Broadcasting and Electronic Media, Broadcast Education Association, 2009.
Faculty Research Award, Office of the Dean of the College, Carleton College, Northfield, MN,
Summer 2009. Awarded for research project, “Samuel Rothafel in Film and Broadcasting:
Mapping Transmedia Flows.”
Faculty Research Award, Office of the Dean of the College, Carleton College, Northfield, MN,
Winter 2008. Awarded for research project, “Arnheim on Film and Radio: Poetics of Emerging
Media.” Supervision of one student researcher.
University Dissertation Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2007-2008. Awarded for
completion of archival research for Ph.D. dissertation project.
Peter Rollins-Michael Schoenecke Travel Grant, Popular Culture Association, Spring 2007.
Awarded for research travel for dissertation research.
Honored Instructor, Professor Recognition Dinner, Delta Delta Delta, Mu Chapter, University of
Wisconsin-Madison, Spring 2007.
Hagley Travel Stipend, Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society, Hagley
Museum and Library, Wilmington, DE, Fall 2007.
McCarty Travel Grant, University of Wisconsin-Madison Communication Arts Department,
Spring 2007, Spring 2005, Spring 2003.
Vilas Travel Grant for Graduate Student Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 20052006.
University Graduate Student Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2005-2006.
McCarty Dissertation Scholarship, University of Wisconsin-Madison Communication Arts
Department, Fall 2005.
Lemelson Center Research Grant for Travel to Collections, Lemelson Center for the Study of
Invention and Innovation, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History,
Washington, D.C., Fall 2005.
Pearce Award for Research in Media and Cultural Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Communication Arts Department, Fall 2004-Spring 2005.
Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, United States Department of Education, 2000-2004.
McCarty Academic Achievement Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison Communication
Arts Department, Fall 2003-Spring 2004.
Helen K. Herman Award for Academic Excellence, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Communication Arts Department, Fall 2002-Spring 2003.
Phi Beta Kappa, Golden Key, Phi Sigma Eta Honor Societies.
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Selected Service and Professional Activities
Academic Journals and Presses
Reviewer, Technology and Culture (Johns Hopkins University Press), 2009-2015
Reviewer, The Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media
(Intellect), 2012-2014
Reviewer, Journal of Radio and Audio Media (Taylor & Francis), 2009-2010
Reviewer, Routledge Press (Taylor & Francis), 2009
Coordinating Co-editor, The Velvet Light Trap: A Critical Journal of Film and
Television, (University of Texas Press), 2005, Issue 56: Special Issue on DVDs
Editorial Board, The Velvet Light Trap, 2000-2004
Editorial Assistant, Philosophy and Rhetoric (Penn State University Press), 2004–2005
New York University, 2013-present
Event Coordinator for live performances by sound artist Monteith McCollum,
Departments of Art and Media, Culture & Communication, New York University, May 5,
2015 and May 1, 2014.
Event Coordinator for Media Activism Workshops with Yes Men Group, Media, Culture
& Communication Department, New York University, April 30, 2015; December 4,
2014; May 1, 2014.
Workshop Participant, 4th Annual College Professors Thought Leadership Seminar, Time
Warner Research Division, Time Warner Center Medialab, New York, NY, July 21-22,
2014.
Event Coordinator for guest lecture by Professor Josh Shepperd (Catholic University of
America), “Space, Event, Advocacy: On the Phenomenological Communication of
Inconspicuous Change,” Doctoral Research Colloquium, Media, Culture &
Communication Department, New York University, February 21, 2014
Magazine interview for New Yorker article, “Is World Wrestling Entertainment Helping
to Reinvent TV?” by Kabir Chibber, April 11, 2014,
http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/is-world-wrestling-entertainment-helpingto-reinvent-tv
Guest interview for “From Mercury to Mars: War of the Worlds at 75” podcast, Sounding
Out! The Sound Studies Blog, http://soundstudiesblog.com, October 31, 2012
Radio interview for “War of the Worlds at 75,” special War of the Worlds retrospective
broadcast, WSUM radio, Binghamton, NY, October 30, 2013
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University of South Carolina, 2010-2012
Event Coordinator for Circuit Bending Workshop with Visiting Sound Artist Nicolas
Collins, Columbia Museum of Art, February 25, 2012
Faculty Judge for Campus Movie Fest, University of South Carolina, February 7-14,
2012
Film and Media Studies Representative, Future Me! College Recruitment Initiative,
University Honors School, University of South Carolina, April 16, 2011
Archival Assistant, Annual Nitrate Film Inspection, Moving Image Research Collections,
University Library System, University of South Carolina, February 23-25, 2011
Event Staff, Film and Media Studies Silent Film Night, University of South Carolina,
December 3, 2010
Programmer, Works of the Avant-Garde Film Screening, Film and Media Studies
Program, University of South Carolina, October 11, 2010
Carleton College, 2008-2010
Undergraduate Advising, 23 advisees (10 freshmen, 8 juniors, 5 graduating seniors),
Department of Cinema and Media Studies, Carleton College, 2009-2010
Faculty Review Committee for Senior Comprehensive Examinations, Department of
Cinema and Media Studies, Carleton College, 2008-2009, 2009-2010
Arts Union Planning Committee, Department of Cinema and Media Studies, Fall 2008Spring 2010
Coordinating editor for CAMSZINE, online magazine of the Department of Cinema and
Media Studies, Carleton College, Spring 2009-Fall 2009
Planning and Design Committee for Cinema and Media Studies Comprehensive
Examinations, Department of Cinema and Media Studies, Carleton College, Fall 2008Fall 2009
Faculty Judge for DVD Fest (Campus Film Festival), Carleton College, Winter 2009
Event Coordinator for Midwest premiere of Live From Bethlehem, with filmmaker Matt
Sienkiewicz and guest journalist Amira Hanania, Carleton College, Winter 2009
Workshop Participant, New Faculty Teaching Workshop, Learning and Teaching Center,
Carleton College, Winter 2009
Discussion Panelist, Prospective Graduate Student Information Session, Campus Career
Center, Carleton College, Fall 2008
University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2005-2007
Discussion Panelist, Graduate Funding Workshop, Graduate Student Collaborative
Professional Development Series, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Spring 2008
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Panel Respondent, Fellowships Orientation Workshop, New Graduate Student Welcome
Weekend, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Fall 2007
Discussion Panelist, Careers and Funding Workshop, Multicultural Graduate Network
Professional Development Symposium, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Fall 2007
Workshop Participant, “Audio Culture in the Visual Era,” Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Workshop, Center for the Humanities, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Fall 2007
Vilas Fellowship Grant Review Committee, University of Wisconsin Graduate School,
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Fall 2007, Fall 2006
Programmer and Event Coordinator, Starlight Cinema Experimental Film Series,
Wisconsin Union Directorate Film Board, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000-2002.
Booking and promotion of weekly programming, event coordination for screenings by
visiting artists Barry Spinello, Lewis Klahr, and visiting curator Astria Suparak
Current and Recent Memberships
Society for Cinema and Media Studies, 2002-2015
Broadcast Education Association, 2007-2015
National Communication Association, 2007-2014
International Association for the Study of Popular Music, 2013-2014
Media, Communication, and Cultural Studies Association, 2009-2013
Society for American Music, 2010-2012
References and Credentials
Available on request