My dissertation examines contemporary humanitarian media empowerment initiatives, arguing that their interventionist rhetorical strategies further exoticize their marginalized beneficiaries by mobilizing their alterity as a …
This project confronts the term "convergence," which crystallizes a matrix of current cultural phenomena, from corporate consolidation to technical integration to user participation, that are …
This dissertation provides a critical and materialist account of the history of the media interview. Starting with Henry Mayhew’s use of the interview to investigate …
This dissertation interrogates the white dominant management, listenership, and sound of American public radio. The increasing number of nonwhite broadcasters in public radio has brought …
“Reverb” recovers the resonance between American literature and sonic media from the invention of the telephone and phonograph (the 1870s) to the end of the …
My project analyzes the intersection of listening, disability, and popular music in the twenty-first century United States. In particular, I focus on competing and contemporary …
Climate change knowledge emerges from the collection of ecological data on a global scale. Scientists require computer models to aggregate and harmonize disparate forms of …
This dissertation addresses a conceptual form of negativity in the literature, film, and criticism of the United States during the period just following World War …
“The World Before Us” demonstrates that black writers’ explorations of how textuality and visuality mutually mediate racialized identity began in the mid-nineteenth century, during photography’s …
Design has come to serve as a solution to almost every problem from climate change to college grades. “Toward a Utopia Without Revolution: Developmentalism, Globalization, …
This dissertation examines the shifts in reproduction, knowledge, and power that remap our notion of "life" in contemporary scientific and popular cultures through the uncanny …
American photographer Doug Rickard’s 2010 project “A New American Picture” represents the poorest neighborhoods in the United States as captured by Google Street View cameras. …