Julie Beth Napolin is Assistant Professor in Literary Studies at the New School. She received a PhD in Rhetoric from Berkeley in 2010. Her work participates in the emerging field of sound studies, focusing on discourses of listening and acoustics in 20^th and 21^st-century literature, philosophy, media, and music.  She is writing a book titled Dialectical Sound: The Acoustics of Narrative Involvement in Conrad and Faulkner, a study of sound, subjectivity, and practices of listening in the novel.  She is a radio producer, practicing musician, and Associate Editor of Digital Yoknapatawpha, a virtual mapping of the world of Faulkner.