Jennifer Iverson
Associate Professor of Music and the Humanities
Director of Graduate Studies and Resident Dean
University of Chicago
Jennifer Iverson is a scholar of electronic music, avant-gardism, sound studies, and disability studies. She is currently writing a book titled Porous Instruments: Synthesizers and the Circulation of Cultural Value, which explores the complex histories and (mis)uses of synthesizers such as the vocoder, Moog, the DX7, and the TR-808. Her first book is Electronic Inspirations: Technologies of the Cold War Musical Avant-Garde. Iverson’s work in disability studies appears in the award-winning Routledge Companion to Music Theory Pedagogy and in several journals.