Fall 2018 and fall 2015 seminar: Ph.D. candidate, comparative literature
Junting Huang is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature. His academic interests include literary studies, film/media studies, and sound studies. His dissertation project examines the “noise” practices in contemporary Chinese literature and new media — by conceptualizing “noise” as an unstructured, extraneous, and erroneous force that indexes the evolving social relations, it examines how the Chinese noise scene in the past two decades has developed into a countermovement to the North American and French concretism (concrete art, concrete poetry, and musique concrète). As a Mellon Fellow, he hopes to develop projects regarding the relationship between field recording, acoustic territory, and urban noise.