Led by my transdisciplinary research interests and mixing experimental theoretical and practical approaches, I have designed courses that sit variously at the intersection of European political philosophy and sound or media studies, often with an urban bent, but I have also taught technical music theory courses, including fugue!
Below are some examples of interdisciplinary courses that I have taught at different institutions, a number co-designed with colleagues in other fields.
Media Activism
A Master’s module that I convened at Warwick’s Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies that blends political theory and media studies. Starting with a grounding in theories of capital, labour and value in a digital age, we look at everything from tactical media and feminist performance to the role of social media in the movements of the squares and digital democracy.
Listening to Urban Waters
A Master’s module that I taught at Warwick combining theory and practice, exploring field recording as a transdisciplinary research method. Thematically, it takes as its focus matters of climate change, urban ecologies, biodiversity, and environmental justice in London waterways and wetlands, asking how we can investigate and analyse these issues through sound and listening.
Writing Sound—Sounding Literature
A seminar I designed while at the University of Pennsylvania for PhD students in Music, Comparative Literature, and English on interactions between sound and literary studies. We examined the various experimental practices, technologies, objects, and imaginaries via which music and sound are inscribed beyond the horizons of literary criticism and media archaeology.
Aurality and Deconstruction
A philosophy seminar I co-taught with Ian Fleishman at UPenn for PhD students in Comparative Literature, German, and Music looking at the role of sound in the writings of Jacques Derrida.
Cities and Sound
An interdisciplinary graduate seminar I co-taught with Francesca Ammon from City and Regional Planning at Penn Design, funded by a Mellon Foundation course development grant.
Media and Memories of the Future—Sound and Environment in Berlin
A cross-disciplinary undergraduate seminar I co-taught at UPenn with architect Daniel Barber with a field trip to Berlin.
Teaching and course design awards
I have won a number of teaching and course design awards for creating experimental interdisciplinary courses, including from the Mellon Humanities+Urbanism+Design Initiative and the Benjamin Franklin Scholars Course Design Grant. I received an award from the University of Pennsylvania in recognition of my commitment to mentoring student research through a number of programmes and was awarded a Warwick Award for Teaching Excellence, nominated by students, in 2021.