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Biographical notes
Jason Camlot is Professor of English and Research Chair in Literature and Sound Studies at Concordia University, Montreal. His recent critical works include Phonopoetics: The Making of Early Literary Recordings and the co-edited collections, Collection Thinking, Unpacking the Personal Library, and CanLit Across Media. His latest poetry collection is Vlarf. He directs the SpokenWeb research partnership.
Annie Murray is a Rare Books and Special Collections Librarian in Libraries and Cultural Resources at the University of Calgary. Since 2014, she has been involved in overseeing the acquisition and preservation of the EMI Music Canada Archive, an initiative that is supported by Universal Music Canada and the Mellon Foundation. Her research and professional interests revolve around special and digital collections and making primary sources more readily available to researchers.
Darren Wershler is Professor of English, Affiliate Professor of Communication Studies and Cinema, and Acting Director of the Milieux Institute at Concordia. With Lori Emerson and Jussi Parikka, he is an author of THE LAB BOOK: Situated Practices in Media Studies (University of Minnesota Press, 2022).
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