Mary Caton Lingold
Assistant Professor
mclingold@vcu.edu
(804) 827-8419
Hibbs Hall 419
Education
MA University of Colorado, Boulder
PHD Duke University
Research/Teaching Focus
Colonial and early American, Caribbean, African diasporic, and Afro-Atlantic literature, travel writing, digital humanities, sound studies, literature and cultures of Atlantic slavery, and vernacular music studies.
Books
Ed. with Darren Mueller and Whitney Trettien. Digital Sound Studies: A Provocation. Duke UP, forthcoming 2018.
Recent/Selected Publications
Review essay. “The Black Atlantic Reconsidered: Black Canadian Writing, Cultural History, and the Presence of the Past; Black Atlas: Geography and Flow in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature,” American Literature 89:1 (2017): 185–187.
With Laurent Dubois and David K. Garner, “Musical Passage: A Voyage to 1688 Jamaica,” SX Archipelago: A Small Axe Journal of Digital Practice 1 (2016): smallaxe.net/sxarchipelagos/index.html
Digital Scholarship
Founder & Director, Sonic Dictionary, sonicdictionary.duke.edu
Co-creator, with Laurent Dubois and David K. Garner, Musical Passage: A Voyage to 1688 Jamaica, www.musicalpassage.org
Co-editor, with Darren Mueller and Whitney Trettien, Provoke!: Digital Sound Studies, www.soundboxproject.com
