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Carolyn Birdsall is Assistant Professor in the department of Media Studies (Television and Cross-Media Culture). Birdsall’s doctoral research engaged with "soundscape" theory and case studies concerning sound technologies and cultural practices during Weimar and Nazi Germany. Her monograph, titled Nazi Soundscapes, will be published by Amsterdam University Press in 2012.

 

In her current research, Birdsall investigates emerging concepts of “documentary sound” in radio and sound film in interwar Germany. A part of this new work will appear in the volume Soundscapes of the Urban Past, edited by Karin Bijsterveld and Andreas Fickers (forthcoming 2012, Transcript Verlag).

 

 

Other current projects include an upcoming conference “Media Homes: Material Culture in Twentieth-Century Domestic Life” (29 June 2012) and special issue “Rethinking Theories of Television Sound” (JSS, 2012).

Education

2004-2009: University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam - PhD candidate (Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis)
2002-2003: University of NSW, Sydney - Honours Degree (First class) in History
1998-2002: University of NSW, Sydney - Bachelor Degrees in History; Media and Communications