With PI Jamie Sexton and CI Nessa Johnston, I am currently researching the history and enduring afterlife of library music production in the UK, France, and Italy as part of the Leverhulme-funded project Anonymous Creativity: Library Music and Screen Cultures in the 1960s and 1970s.

My research interests include the social and material history of sound recording; alternative and DIY publishing (notably fanzines); popular music and sound across media; theories and practices of material culture; archival and heritage practices in digital environments.

Prior to joining Northumbria University in June 2021, I held research and teaching positions in HEIs in the UK and Germany, including at the Glasgow School of Art, the University of Glasgow, Humboldt University of Berlin, the University of Cambridge and Newcastle University.

I am the author of Media, Materiality and Memory: Grounding the Groove (Ashgate 2014; Routledge 2015) and the co-editor (with Eva Moreda Rodríguez) of the forthcoming collection Phonographic Encounters: Mapping Transnational Cultures of Sound, 1890-1945 (Routledge). My second monograph (currently in preparation) is entitled Shellac in Visual and Sonic Culture: Unsettled Matter (Amsterdam UP).