Mary Caton Lingold

Mary Caton Lingold, PhD

Associate Professor

Director, PhD in Media, Art and Text

mclingold@vcu.edu

Hibbs Hall, 900 Park Ave., room 419

Personal website

Literatures of Diversity

18th Century

Education

PhD in English, Duke University, 2017
MA in English, University of Colorado, Boulder, 2010
BA in English, Trinity University, 2004

Research Interests

Lingold is an interdisciplinary scholar specializing in the early modern African Atlantic world. Her research and teaching involve the study of literature, music, sound, digital media, and the cultural history of slavery in the colonial Caribbean and North America.

Select Publications

Mary Caton Lingold, African Musicians in the Atlantic World: Legacies of Sound and Slavery. UVA Press, 2023.
Mary Caton Lingold, Darren Mueller, and Whitney Trettien, editors. Digital Sound Studies. Duke University Press, 2018.
Mary Caton Lingold, “In Search of Mr. Baptiste: Early Caribbean Music, Race, and a Colonial Composer,” Early Music xlix.1, 2021.
Mary Caton Lingold, “Digital Performance and the Musical Archive of Slavery: Like Running Home,” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 49, 2020.
Mary Caton Lingold, “Peculiar Animations: Listening to Afro-Atlantic Music in Caribbean Travel Narratives,” Early American Literature 52.3, 2017.

Affiliations

Courses

ENGL 313, AMST 391: Popular Culture: Race and Identity in American Music (Upper-division special topics)
ENG 215: Reading Literature: Early African America (Gen-ed)
ENGL 379, AFAM 379: African American Literature: Beginnings to the Harlem Renaissance (Upper-division)
ENG 365, AFAM 365, INTL 367: Caribbean Literature (Upper-division)
ENGL 614: Cultural Discourses: Literature & Culture of the Early Modern Atlantic World (Master’s Seminar)
MATX 690: Sound Studies (Doctoral Seminar)

Awards

Richard Beale Davis Prize Winner for Best Essay in Early American Literature, 2017

Department of English

College of Humanities and Sciences