In this workshop, Neil will discuss the new sound studies program at Northwestern, how it came to be and how Northwestern has thought about \u201cinstitutionalizing\u201d Sound Studies. He\u2019ll also be discussing the new network he his helping to build – GLASS (Great Lakes Association for Sound Studies).<\/p>\n

Neil Verma<\/strong> is assistant professor of sound studies in Radio\/Television\/Film at Northwestern University. Verma is author of Theater of the Mind: Imagination, Aesthetics, and American Radio Drama (Chicago, 2012), which won the 2013 Best First Book Award from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Verma has published articles and chapters on topics ranging from film history and television sound design to experimental listening and podcasting. Verma is working on two books, tentatively titled \u201cHow Sounds Think: Making Strange Radio in the Podcasting Age\u201d and \u201cHiding in Plain Sound: The Radio Drama of Orson Welles.\u201d He is Network Director for the Radio Preservation Task Force at the Library of Congress and co-founder of the Great Lakes Association for Sound Studies (GLASS).<\/p>\n

This event is sponsored by SoundStudies@UW, a Borghesi-Mellon Interdisciplinary Workshop in the Humanities, with support from the Center for the Humanities.<\/p>","excerpt":"

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