Accepted for special American Quarterly on Sound Studies

My essay, "Intimate Threats and Intersubjective Users: Telephone Training Films, 1927-1964" has been accepted for a special sound studies issue of American Quarterly, the journal of the American Studies Association.The essay explores a historic role of a sound technology, telephony, in assessments of desirable people, especially people as its ideal and sanctioned user-consumers, as conveyed by