# Toward a Trans Listening Practice #### calendar\_today Date and Time **November 18, 2020** 03:30PM - 03:30PM EST #### pin\_drop Location **Zoom Meeting** [ onto the registration page arrow\_circle\_right ](https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcrdOmvpz4pHtVngUJXaLBPiTCMiffheBj5) ## ![stylized rainbow sound bars](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_1_1__960x960_scale/public/mahindra/files/soundtext.jpg?itok=3ufwxgHu) ## [SOUND/TEXT](/soundtext) ## SPEAKER: ALY W. COREY, HARVARD UNIVERSITY **Aly W. Corey** is a contingent faculty member at Harvard University (History & Literature) and UMass Boston (American Studies). They received their Ph.D. in English from the University of Colorado Boulder, where they served as Manager of the Laboratory for Race and Popular Culture from 2013-2017. Their research considers how the gendering of sound leads into and emerges out of the racial dynamics of U.S. musical culture. Alex has a chapter titled “Sounding Out Racial Difference” in *The Routledge Companion to Sound Studies* (ed. Michael Bull) and an article titled "The Reverberating Flesh: Refiguring Blackness and Sex in Ralph Ellison's Musical Basements" forthcoming in *Arizona Quarterly*. Their current book project is called *Hysterical Melodies: Sex and the Music of Black Modernism*. It examines how discourses of binary sex affect the racialization of U.S. musical culture. ### **Instructions how to join:** **Please add your name and e-mail address [onto the registration page](https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcrdOmvpz4pHtVngUJXaLBPiTCMiffheBj5). After registering you will receive a confirmation e-mail containg a link to the event and passcode.** **If you have any questions or difficulty to register, please contact Alex Rehding at ** See also:- [ Seminar ](/event-type/seminar) - [ Sound/Text ](/seminars/soundtext) Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#) Save: [ Add to calendar calendar\_today ](https://mahindrahumanities.harvard.edu/node/1366351/event-feed.ics) Copy link link