Post-Doc, Science, Technology, Society Studies
French National Centre for Scientific Research, Atelier de recherche sur l'intermedialité et les arts du spectacle (ARIAS)
Université Paris III - Sorbonne Nouvelle, Ecole Doctorale, Arts & Médias
Post Doc Researcher in the Sonic Skills VICI project
Maastricht University
Thesis Title: Post doc : The Hospital: Audification of Physiological Phenomena, 1950-now
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Karin Bijsterveld
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About
2011: Post-doc "The Hospital: Audification of Physiological Phenomena, 1950-now"
- a subproject of the VICI funded "Sonic Skills: Sound and Listening in the Development of Science, Technology and Medicine (1920-now)" research project led by Karin Bijsterveld, STS Department, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Maastricht University.
- I'm working on a history of how physicians learn, acquire, employ their diagnosic listening skills, concentrating specifically on the stethoscope's use in respiratory medicine. The project aims to study and understand these modes of listening and sonic skills in relation to shifts in medical knowledge from 1950s onwards.
I'm particularly interested in how sound recordings of lung sounds became integrated in medical teaching /research starting in 1950, and impacted sound codification and auscultation techniques.
The project will take note of certain cultural differences across select European medical didactic methods ( British, French, Dutch, German), with consideration also of North American practices.
PhD / Background:
2010, Ph.D. with Félicitations (summa cum laude), Université Paris 3-Sorbonne-Nouvelle, Department of Theater.
- Advisor: Marie-Madeleine Mervant-Roux.
- Ph.D. title: Théâtre et technologies sonores (1870-1910). Une réinvention de la scène, de l’écoute, de la vision. [Theater and Sound Technologies (1870-1910)". A reinvention of the stage, listening and vision].
2004, M.A. New York University, Department of Music, musicology
2001, B.A., magna cum laude, Emory University, Music Performance (clarinet, piano); English Literature
The subject of my Ph.D. was to examine what impact auditory research, sound technologies (such as the phonograph, telephone and théâtrophone), and new listening practices had on French theater at the end of the 19th century, across its many diverse forms and spaces.
It begins with a reconstruction of Paris auditory culture from historical archives, underlying the links between science, culture, and art, in particular the varying ways these technologies and practices literally materialize in the performing arts. I then read different theaters, specific plays and productions, and theatrical models for how new conceptions and practices of sound affect theatrical creation at its core, from classic ‘high’ theaters to avant-garde ones to popular entertainment (examples include: Maurice Maeterlinck, Alfred Jarry, Antonin Antoine, Charles Cros, Sarah Bernhardt).
Analyzing musical content, sound effects, or onstage props are presented but do not compose the main material of study. Instead, traces of this new sound culture are isolated and examined in the conception and creation of theatrical space and its sonic dimensions, in the position and perception of the spectator-auditor, in dramaturgy and form, in acting techniques and voice. At a critical moment of theatre history, referred to as the “invention of the mise en scène” and studied for its relation to new visual techniques and media, my work establishes that the reflection on sound was equally of fundamental importance to this reconceptualization of theater.
I am also a founding member and active participant of the international research project Theater sound / Le son du théâtre. Based between two research centers on Intermediality and the Performing Arts in Paris and Montreal, it takes an interdisciplinary, historical and contemporary approach to the audible of theater (1870-present), including sound creation, acoustics, sound theater archives, radio in francophone and anglophone theater worlds through mainly conferences and publications.
Contact Information
| Address: | melissa.vandrie@maastrichtuniversity.nl |
