personal information:
dr. nicholas laudadio
assistant professor
department of english
601 south college road
wilmington, nc 28403
morton hall, room 138

910.962.7442
laudadion@uncw.edu

education:
Ph.D. in English
M.A. in English
State University of New York at Buffalo, 2005

B.A. in English
B.S. in Communications
Boston University, 1995

research interests:
Science fiction and film, cultural studies, critical and cultural theory, popular music studies, American fiction and film, literature and science, media studies, and technology studies.

in progress:
Singing Machines: A Critical and Cultural History of the Electronic Musical Instrument

Blandemonium: In Defense of Things Soft, Sweet, and Easy (Like Sunday Morning).

selected publications:
“The Electronic Musical Instrument in Film Song and Sound.” Sound and Music in Film and Visual Media: A Critical Overview, Ed. Graeme Harper. New York: Continuum Books, 2008.

"Just Like So But Isn't: Musical Consciousness and Richard Powers' Galatea 2.2." Extrapolation (49:4) 2008.

"What Dreams Sound Like: Forbidden Planet and the Electronic Musical Instrument." Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts (17:4) 2007.

Review of Off the Planet: Music, Sound and Science Fiction Cinema. Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts (17:3) 2007.

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