MY WORK

My work aims to better understand popular culture and our contemporary moment through a combination of artistic elements and academic analysis. The projects below represent the broad application of my current work: from data analysis to collaborative scholarship to personal essays and even multimedia content.

"Listening Close"

This excerpt of my doctoral dissertation represents the culmination of my research at Vanderbilt. My project is a 250-page analysis of race and gender in the podcasting industry, organized according to the form's dominant genres. For a short summary of the project, see this podcast mini-episode I presented at the beginning of my defense.

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"Redlining in Literature"

Completed as part of my Mellon Fellowship for the Digital Humanities, this project considers how housing segregation restricted not only physical worlds but also imaginary ones. It documents the boundaries of characters' worlds, setting the

novels quite literally against the backdrop of HOLC security maps.

"Art of Interference"

This podcast project, produced collaboratively with other academics, considers creative responses to climate change. In each episode, we talk with artists and experts who work at the intersection of nature, technology, and science. In addition to being the show's sound editor and mixer, I also produce, write, and co-host episodes.

"It's the Appropriation for Me"

This collaborative project from 2021 outlines the history of sonic blackface (or "blackvoice") in American pop culture, and uses that history as a framework for thinking about TikTok trends and the widespread appropriation of Blackness more broadly across the platform, especially among younger users.

"Zooming Out: Lessons from the COVID-Era Classroom"

I look back on three semesters of online teaching and learning in this blog post for the Vanderbilt Center for Digital Humanities. I've learned a lot about what teaching can look like in a digital space,

which continued to benefit me even as we returned in-person.

"This is Nashville"

In 2022 I interned with Nashville Public Radio, where I produced episodes for the station's daily show, recording field audio, reporting, pre-interviewing and booking guests, and writing scripts. Episodes I produced explored topics like school vouchers, the state of country music fashion, HBCU athletics, and Jewish identity.

"Kaleidosonic Remediation"

My first peer-reviewed article considers how the 2016 podcast Homecoming remediates classical radio drama while also drawing on the traditions of found-footage horror. Homecoming's sonic collage muddles the line between story and reality, evoking the anxiety of a post-privacy, post-Snowden America.