I am a media theorist and historian with a PhD in Film & Media from the University of California, Berkeley. My research explores the intersection of digital and aural cultures. I teach in the Moving Image Arts Program at the University of Illinois Chicago.

My book manuscript, The Computational Soundscape, examines how sound technologies have shaped both our social understanding and embodied experience of digital media. Through original archival research, I trace the development of immersive sonic media from early telephony to virtual reality. I show how the concept of immersion has fostered the imagination of the listener's ability to hear the global, networked space of flux and multiplicity under platform capitalism.

My writing on the sonic arts, film, the history of technology, and digital aesthetics has appeared or is forthcoming in venues including October, Media Fields, and Sounding Out!. I have developed and taught courses on AI voice, games, film history, immersive media, apocalyptic cinema, and media archaeology. My research has been supported by fellowships from the Lemelson Center of Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, the Baird Society, The Linda Hall Library of Science and Technology, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the University of California Humanities Research Institute.

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