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Sonic Dictionary Project Team Bios

Darren Mueller, Sonic Dictionary co-director, is a doctoral candidate in Musicology at Duke University with interests in jazz, the history of sound reproduction, and performance studies. His current research on the jazz industry’s adoption of the long-playing record examines how technologies of reproduction implicate contestations over musical aesthetics, style, and race in the US during the 1950s. He has published in Jazz Perspectives, Ethnomusicology Review, and Sensate. He is also co-editor of Provoke!: Digital Sound Studies.

Mary Caton Lingold’s research and teaching bridges historical and digital approaches to sonic scholarship. She is the founder and co-director of the Sonic Dictionary, an inter-institutional pedagogical experiment. Through her doctoral research at Duke, she argues that it is possible to hear the sounds of the pre-recorded past through an examination of early Afro-Atlantic musical life in literature (1650-1850). Mary Caton is a co-editor of Provoke!: Digital Sound Studies.

Rebecca Geoffroy-Schwinden is a Ph.D. candidate in musicology at Duke University, where she is completing a dissertation on French musicians who re-imagined their profession by negotiating Enlightenment philosophies of music with lived experiences of the French Revolution. Her research pursues sound as politics from the eighteenth century to the present and has appeared in Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture and Eighteenth-Century Music, among others. Rebecca earned an M.A. in musicology from Duke University and B.A.s phi beta kappa in history and international studies from Penn State’s Schreyer Honors College. Rebecca co-directs the Sonic Dictionary.

Will Shaw is the digital humanities technology consultant at Duke University Libraries.  A graduate of Warren Wilson College, Mr. Shaw earned his M.A. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he is now completing his Ph.D. in English literature.  He is a student of British Romanticism and the digital humanities.  As technical editor of the William Blake Archive, he created several new digital humanities tools while overseeing the development and maintenance of the leading digital project in his field; at Duke, he has helped build a wide range of digital projects as part of the Humanities Writ Large initiative.  His scholarly interests include William Blake, 19th century British poetry, William Hazlitt, and the curriculum and pedagogy of the digital humanities.

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