About
Bonnie Gordon is Associate Professor of Critical and Comparative Studies and a faculty director of the newly launched Equity Center. Her research is centered on the experiences of sound in Early Modern music making and the affective potential of the human voice. She is currently working on two book projects. Voice Machines: The Castrato, The Cat Piano and Other Strange Sounds, about the interrelated histories of music, technology, sound, and the limits of the human body, and Jefferson’s Ear, which focuses on sound, music, and race in Monticello and New Orleans. Between 2016–2017, she was the Robert Lehman Visiting Professor at Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies. She plays viola in a rock band and a free improvisation trio, and her writing has been published in the Washington Post, Slate, and various blogs.
