I have journal articles on sound art and disability aesthetics; vocal labor and the reaction video; the work of art collective Bernadette Corporation, the Gossip Girl novels, and girlish language; 9/11 and the animated architecture of Dutch firm Oosterhuis.nl; Althea Thauberger's photographs of German youth; motion capture and early cartoons; and the anime series Puella Magi Madoka Magica. My favorite is a book chapter about the costume designs of Leigh Bowery and the early years of the AIDS crisis in the UK. 

I am interested in the rhetorical and aesthetic possibilities of the scholarly audio essay, an emerging format for academic writing. Here is one I made for Texas Tech University's Humanities Center. This podcast segment is about an overlooked aspect of the history of computing: the Automated (or Automatic) Teller Machine. Specifically, I argue that banks instrumentalized the feminized voice as an inter-face to ease customers' entrance into information networks. I conducted research on advertising and marketing ATMs at the Wells Fargo Bank Archives.

Heather W-C · ATM Audio Essay