Writing
The Washington Post, “TikTok’s #brownnoise is the latest push to quiet our stress-filled worlds” (November 4, 2022).
Real Life Magazine, “Fidelity Angst” (July 6, 2022).
Real Life Magazine, “Emotional Rescue” (December 3, 2020).
The Atlantic, “How a Bad Night’s Sleep Birthed the Sound Conditioner” (June 23, 2019).
Literary Hub, “The World is Wrecking Our Hearing–And We’re Letting It” (March 19, 2019).
Culture Digitally, “The Real Problem Is Not Misinformation” (November 22, 2016).
Medium, “Did Crowd Mics Amp Up DNC Drama?” (July 27, 2016).
Media Appearances and Interviews
MIT Technology Review, “Noise-canceling headphones could let you
pick and choose the sounds you want to hear” (November 9, 2023).
The Wall Street Journal, “Do We Need to Wear Noise-Canceling Headphones and Earbuds This Much?” (October 9, 2023).
The Washington Post, “Beyond white noise: How different ‘color’ sounds help or hurt” (October 9, 2023).
The Happiness Lab, “The Handbook for Sonic Happiness” (July 27, 2022).
The Podcast Studies Podcast, “Mack Hagood of Phantom Power: Sound Studies & Scholarly Podcasting” (December 17, 2021).
Twenty Thousand Hertz, “Sonic Bubbles” (September 1, 2021).
Freakonomics, “Please Get Your Noise Out of My Ears” (November 11, 2020).
The New York Times, “If a Dunk Echoes Across an Empty Gym, Is It Still Must-See TV?” (August 17, 2020).
BBC Radio 3, “Late Junction: Sonic Self-Care” (March 6, 2020).
The Wire, “Hush: Media and Sonic Self-Control” (September 2019).
New Books in Sound Studies, “Hush: Media and Sonic Self-Control” (August 12, 2019).
The New Yorker, “The Noises We Try Not to Hear” (May 31, 2019).
Pitchfork, “Natural Selection: How a New Age Hustler Sold the Sound of the World” (2016).
The New Yorker, “Enjoy the Silence” (March 13, 2014).
Speaking Engagements
“The End of Listening.” Invited Talk, Unsound Festival, Kraków, Poland, October 24, 2024.
“Mapping Tinnitus.” Invited Panelist, Unsound Festival, Kraków, Poland, October 24, 2024.
“Deep Listening.” Invited Panelist, TalkLow Festival/Institute for Research on Sensing, September 26, 2024.
“Canceling Noise: Dreams And Dangers.” Invited Talk, University of Maryland Baltimore County, April 19, 2023.
“Differentiating Sound Studies: Politics of Sound and Listening.” Conference Keynote Talk, Differentiating Sound Studies: Politics of Sound and Listening. Music Research Center of Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea. April 14-5, 2022.
Conversation with Mack Hagood, Author of Hush (with Jennifer Hyland Wang and Bill Kirkpatrick). Great Lakes Association for Sound Studies. January 21, 2021.
“Hush: Media and Sonic Self-Control.” Invited talk, Antioch College. March 2, 2020.
“Orphic Media and the Crisis of Listening.” Invited talk. Department of Media, Culture, & Communication, New York University. February 6, 2020.
“Pressing Play: Audio Media and Sonic Self-Control.” Invited talk. Oklahoma Center for the Humanities, University of Tulsa. October 10, 2019.
“Taking Literature beyond Words through Audio Production.” Workshop, Department of Comparative Literature, State University of New York, Binghamton. April 12, 2019.
“Sonic Self-Control: From Greek Myth to Beats Headphones.” Invited talk, Department of Comparative Literature, State University of New York, Binghamton. April 11, 2019.
“Beats, Bose and the Politics of Listening.” Invited talk, The Center for American Music, University of Texas, Austin. March 28, 2019.
“Beats, Bose and the Politics of Headphones.” Invited talk, Department of Cinematic Arts, University of Iowa. March 1, 2019.
“Phantom Power: Doing Sound Studies ‘Out Loud.’” Invited talk, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Iowa. February 27, 2019.
“Bose, Beats, and the Politics of Listening.” Invited talk, Communication Colloquium Series, Denison University, Granville, OH, December 6, 2018.
“Orphic Media in Literature and Popular Culture.” Invited panelist, “Rock, Literature, and Technology,” Novel Sounds: American Fiction in the Age of Rock and Roll, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, NC, October 14, 2016.
“Haunted Hearing: Phantom Sound and the Homeostatic Body.” Invited talk. Composing the Tinnitus Suites, a collaborative performance by Daniel Fishkin, Pew Center for Arts and Heritage, Philadelphia, October 2, 2016.
“A Non-Linear History of Sound and Space.” Invited talk, UIC School of Architecture Lecture Series, University of Illinois, Chicago, April 18, 2016.
“Research Agendas for Digital Audio.” Invited talk, Media Arts and Sciences Speaker Series, Indiana University, October 5, 2012.
“Audio-Spatial Media: Reshaping Sound, Space, Self, and Sociality.” Invited talk, Social Media Collective, Microsoft Research New England, June 2012.
“Sonic Technologies of the Self.” Invited talk, Miami University Department of Communication, January 25, 2012.
“QuietComfort: Noise, Otherness, and the Mobile Production of Personal Space.” Virginia L. Gunderson Lecture, Indiana University Department of Communication and Culture, September 2011. “It Worked for Them: Tips for Creating an Inclusive Classroom Climate.” Invited Panelist, 2010 Indiana University Associate Instructor Workshop on Campus Climate.