Education: PhD, University of Iowa; MFA, Columbia University; BS, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Teaching and Research Interests: Film and Media Studies; American Cinema and Culture, especially the 1930s; Avant-Garde Film, Nonfiction Film and Video; History of Sound Technologies; Use of Mass Media by Left and Radical Groups

Selected Publications: Book -- Electric Sounds: Technological Change and the Rise of corporate Mass Media. Essays -- in Film History; Sound Theory/Sound Practice; Keyframes: Popular Cinema and Cultural Studies; Communities of the Air: Radio Century, Radio Culture; Dickens on Screen