Erin Cory

Graduate Student

Education

Ph.D Candidate, Communication, University of California-San Diego

MA in English Literature, Boston College, 2007

BA in English Literature, Indiana University-Bloomington, 2003

BA in Spanish, Indiana University-Bloomington, 2003

Research

Though my undergraduate and Masters degrees are both in English literature, I have been an active musician for most of my life and in recent years have become interested in issues pertaining to popular music and Middle Eastern youth culture. I am particularly interested in Lebanese underground music and the radical potential of music/noise to disrupt and reconfigure a traditionally sectarian political land/soundscape.

I believe in the power of the keytar.

Honors

Excellent Teaching Assistant (Department of Communication, UCSD 2009)

Dean of Social Sciences Travel Grant (UCSD 2009)

Donald J. White Teaching Excellence Award (Boston College 2007)

Publications

Teaching Experience

Introduction to Communication, Department of Communication, UCSD, Instructor (Summer 2011)

Popular Music, Social Practices, and Cultural Politics, Department of Communication, UCSD, Teaching Assistant with Professor Michael Hanson (2011).

Communication as a Social Force, Department of Communication, UCSD, Teaching Assistant with Professor Ariana Hernandez-Reguant (2010) and Professor Gary Fields (2009).

Language, Communication, and Gender, Department of Communication, UCSD, Teaching Assistant with Professor Michele Goldwasser (2009).

Introduction to Media Methods, Department of Communication, UCSD, Teaching Assistant with Professor Zeinabu Davis (2009).

Introduction to Communication, Department of Communication, UCSD, Teaching Assistant with Professor Boatema Boateng (2010), Professor Nitin Govil (2008) and Professor David Serlin (2007)

American Television in the 1970’s, Department of Communication, UCSD, Teaching Assistant with Professor David Serlin (2007).

First-Year Writing Seminar, Department of English Literature, Boston College, Teaching Fellow (2006-2007).

Spanish Teacher (Grades 1-7), Mystic Valley Regional Charter School, Malden, MA (2004-2005).

Presentations

“Soundscapes in Beirut: The Production of Affective Spaces” New Directions in Cultural Studies. Cultural Studies Association Conference at Columbia College, Chicago, IL, March 2011

“Dedication and Delusion: An Ecocritical Look at the Work of Timothy Treadwell and Mark Bittner” Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) Biennial Conference at Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC, June 2007

“The Candid Uncanny: Toward a Productive Mourning in the Work of Kara Walker” Beyond Revolution or Behind It?: The Politics and Practice of Contemporary Feminism Across Academic and Activist Communities. Graduate Consortium of Women’s Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, March 2007

“Queering the Body” panel at the English Department Fall Colloquium, “The Body,” Boston College, November 2006.