Press & Interviews

Press 

• Interviewed by WHYY for my edition of previously unreleased recordings of Robert Frost.

• Featured in SAS Frontiers, the Penn School of Arts & Sciences magazine on research within the School. “Read Me a Poem: M.Phil. candidate Chris Mustazza is investigating—and making accessible—a lost archive of poets reading their work.” February 18. 2015.

• “Newly Digitized James Weldon Johnson Recordings? Yes, Please!,” on my editing of the James Weldon Johnson collection for PennSound. Harriet (poetry news from The Poetry Foundation). December 2014.

• “Harriet Monroe Reads!,” on my editing of the Harriet Monroe collection for PennSound. Harriet (poetry news from The Poetry Foundation). October 2014.

• “All the Vachel Lindsay Fit to Play,” on my editing of The W. Cabell Greet Recordings audio collection for PennSound. Harriet (poetry news from The Poetry Foundation). June 2014.

• “The Field of Phonotextuality Started Here,” on my article “Provenance Report: William Carlos Williams’ 1942 Recording for the National Council of Teachers of English.” Harriet (poetry news from The Poetry Foundation). May 2014.

Interviews and Recordings

Interview with Daniel Finkel for The Lark, the literary podcast of The Penn Review

PoemTalk discussion with Herman Beavers and Salamishah Tillet, hosted by Al Filreis, on James Weldon Johnson’s “O Southland!”

Machine-Aided Close Listening



Check out the prototypes of these tools for Machine-Aided Close Listening, a reading-listening methodology that seeks to align the visual forms of poems with their sonic forms. Article on this topic forthcoming in Digital Humanities Quarterly. These tools were developed with Reuben Wetherbee and my research assitant Zoe Stoller.

* Robert Creeley's "I Know a Man"
* Robert Frost's "Mending Wall"
* Comparative tool for William Carlos Williams' "To Elsie"