Amy Skjerseth is a Ph.D. Candidate in the department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago, where she coordinates the Sound and Society Workshop. She has her M.A. in English from McGill, a B.M. in Oboe Performance from the Eastman School of Music, and B.A. in English from the University of Rochester. Her dissertation explores the material and gendered consequences of body/sound synchronization in postwar experimental cinema, from the feminist avant-garde to music video. She expands definitions of "lip sync" via technology, timbre, and texture in the mise-en-scène, especially through sonic appropriation and haptic appeals to embodied memory.
