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Department of Media, Culture, and Communication 
New York University 
239 Greene Street
New York, NY 10003 
mmills@nyu.edu

A diagram with a sketch of a woman's head, an arrow pointing from her brain to a hand holding a pencil, and another arrow exiting her mouth and pointing to a sketch of an ear
Schematic Representation of the Communication Process
Elise Richter, How We Speak (Wie Wir Sprechen), Leipzig, 1912
 

NEWS

Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize 
awarded to How to be Disabled in a Pandemic (September 2026)

Deaf Acoustics: Listening Through Hearing Aids with Thomas Edison 
Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology (June 2026)

Alt Text: Feminist Technoscience Meets Crip Authorship (with Louise Hickman and David Serlin) 
Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience (10th Anniversary Issue Roundtable, Fall 2025)

When Mobile Communication Technologies Were New (German translation and reprint) 
Akustische Interfaces: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf Schnittstellen von Technologien, Sounds und Menschen (August 2025)

New Book Series: Disability in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine 
Johns Hopkins University Press (edited with Jaipreet Virdi and Wayne Tan)

Research Fellow, Charles Babbage Institute 
University of Minnesota (2024-)

Summer/Fall 2026 Itinerary

Visiting Faculty: Media Aesthetics Summer Institute (Impedance and Resistance)
Northwestern (July 13-17)

Disability as Method (with Bernd Oppl and Georgina Kleege)
Overgaden (Copenhagen, 28 August)

Keynote, Distortions conference
(NYU Department of Music, October 3)

LINKS

  • "Measuring Aurality" Working Group (Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine)
  • Assistive Media Project @ Leuphana University
  • Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience
  • Disabilities and Digital Media DFG Network
  • Epistemes of Modern Acoustics Research Group, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
  • JHUP Book Series: Disability in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
  • Machine Listening, a curriculum
  • New York City Civil Rights History Project
  • NYU Alliance for Public Interest Technology
  • NYU Center for Disability Studies
  • NYU Disabilities, Inclusion and Accessibility Provostial Working Group (DIA)
  • NYU Minor in Disability Studies
  • NYU Minor in Science and Society
  • Paramodernities Portal
  • Research Fellow, Charles Babbage Institute
  • Sounding Out!
  • The Future of Disability Studies @ Columbia
  • Thinking Head (Lara Favaretto, see "Paradigm")
  • UCHRI Critical Disability Studies Research Group
  • Variantology
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