Welcome! My name is Carolyn Birdsall and I’m an Associate Professor of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam.
I’m an interdisciplinary researcher, trained in History and Media/Communications. My expertise is in Radio & Sound Studies, Media History & Archival Studies, Heritage & Memory Studies, and Environmental/Spatial Humanities.
My new book, Radiophilia (2023), explores the love for radio, from early wireless to digital audio. It brings together radio/podcast studies with research on fans, affect & emotion, memory, heritage & archives, technology, design & material culture.
I also lead the ASCA Cities Project and the NWO-funded project TRACE (Tracking Radio Archival Collections in Europe, 1930-1960), which examines how European radio recordings were archived, circulated and re-used under conditions of war, occupation and reconstruction.
News
- Release of new monograph: Radiophilia (Bloomsbury) in September 2023!
- Presentation, Affective Intermediality conference (online) (20-21 Oct. 2023)
- Plenary, MeCCSA Radio Studies Network conference, Sunderland (27-28 Oct. 2023)
- Keynote, IASA Germany – 100 Years of Radio conference, Berlin (10 Nov. 2023)
- Keynote, 100 Years Radio im DIY-Betrieb conference, Berlin (13 Nov. 2023)