Andrea Avidad
PhD Candidate
Dissertation
Title: Sonic Trouble: Materialist, Feminist Genealogies of Acousmatic Sound & Voice
Supervisor: Dana Polan
My dissertation traces genealogies of Acousmatic Sound and Voice in both cinematic and non-cinematic "new" media through a materialist feminist lens, moving away from formalist analytics.
Bio
Andrea Avidad is a PhD candidate in the Cinema Studies department at NYU. She has taught graduate courses at The New School (Documentary Art History), and several courses at the University of North Carolina, the City University of New York, and at NYU (Intro to Film, Nonfiction Film & Video, International Cinema, Origins to 1960s, among many others). Her academic publications include book chapters in the Oxford Handbook of Media and Vocality (forthcoming, 2025) and in Sound Affects, published by Bloomsbury US (2022), as well as journal articles in Film-Philosophy and Soapbox: Journal for Cultural Analysis (Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis). She's obsessed with all things sonic.