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Teaching

  • Disability, Technology, and Media (undergrad—Disability Technology Media Spring 2023 web)
  • On the Phone: Telephone and Mobile Communication Technology (undergrad—OnThePhoneSyll2017)
  • History of Media and Communication (undergrad—HistMediaCommsyll2016)
  • Introduction to Communication Research (doctoral methods)
  • Media Archaeology (grad–Media Archaeology syllabus 2017)
  • Science and Technology Studies (STS) (grad)

NEWS

How to be Disabled in a Pandemic 
ed. Mills, Kornstein, Ginsburg, and Rapp, Foreword by Ed Yong (NYU Press, 2025)

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)

Holding the Line: On the Art of Christine Sun Kim 
Artforum (April 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-)

Fall 2025 Itinerary

Introducing Reid Davenport, Maysoon Zayid, and Emily Ladau at Life After screening 
Film Forum (July 23)

Catalyst journal 10th anniversary panels 
4S Seattle conference (3-5 September)

Keynote: Speed Listening by Telephone 
Tele-Phonies symposium (Institut National d'Histoire d l'art, Paris, 8-9 October)

NYU's Podcast Intellectuals (hybrid panel) 
Podcasting and Academia Symposium (NYU Arthur L Carter Journalism Institute, 10 October)

Roundtable: Interface Frictions by Neta Alexander 
Yale Film and Media (22 October)

AI and Dis/Ability: Co-Constitution, Appropriation, and Design 
Helmut-Schmidt-University (Hamburg/hybrid, 12-13 November)

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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