Bio
My permanent teaching home is in the Humanities department at Champlain College Saint-Lambert in Montreal. My research, teaching, and creative practice reside at the intersections of film studies, sound studies, and critical geography. My recent work has focused on the relationship between the World Soundscape Project and the broader media landscape of Vancouver, British Columbia. I have contributed anthology chapters on the politics of location sound in Vancouver films to Cinephemera (McGill-Queen’s), The Routledge Companion to Screen Music and Sound, and Critical Distance in Documentary Media (Palgrave), and have published related work on the Sounding Out! blog and in UBC’s film journal Cinephile. My multi-media project Bell Tower of False Creek engages with contested land use around Vancouver’s Burrard Bridge, which I have written about for Soundscape: The Journal of Acoustic Ecology. The Bell Tower film component has screened at festivals and symposiums internationally, and I have recently completed work on a multi-channel sound installation for the Impostor Cities project at the Canadian pavilion of the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale, exploring the mediated soundscapes of Canadian architecture in foreign film productions. I am co-editor of Sound, Media, Ecology with Milena Droumeva (Simon Fraser University), published by Palgrave in July 2019, and my monograph for Oxford University Press, entitled An Acoustic Ecology of the Cinema, was published in 2023.
About Me
I teach full time in the Humanities department at Champlain College in Montreal. My research, pedagogy, and creative practice reside at the intersections of soundscape research, media studies, and critical geography. I have previously taught in the cinema departments at Concordia University and Toronto Metropolitan University, and in the Humanities departments at Lasalle College and Dawson College. I have presented and published extensively on film sound, media geography, and acoustic ecology. My sound compositions, photographs and films have been exhibited internationally. See bio for more details.