I’m a media scholar pursuing my Ph.D in Cinema & Media Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Lately I’ve been thinking about cities, sound, and the environment. My current research examines the political ecology of climate infrastructure, considering state power, community activism, urban planning, and the resonances of life in public spaces. My work is comparative and multidisciplinary, drawing on sound studies, critical geography, anthropology, and environmental media; I use soundwalks and other sonic and visual methods to shift between practice, theory, and action.

Prior to Penn, I completed my MFA at Pratt Institute where I explored interspecies communication futures through our relationships with plants, nature, and how we can recuperate possibilities for living in a planet-centered world.

I’ve also been a project manager and communications director; business owner and startup founder; editor and book designer. I ran a bookstore/community-space/creative-studio with Willa Blevins called PRINTtEXT where I got my start in design making cultural broadsheets, album covers, and books about soundscape ecologies. 

Email me at:
janneane@sas.upenn.edu