Mara Mills
Biographic Data
| ID | 3867782 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mara Mills |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mara |
| FAMILY NAME | Mills |
| SIGNATURE | MILLS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 71 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
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From the very beginning, questions of accessibility and disability authorship were imagined as integral to the journal that became Catalyst. On the occasion of Catalyst’s tenth anniversary, Mara Mills initiated a conversation between herself and two other members of the journal’s first editorial team, Louise Hickman and David Serlin, to reflect on the way that feminist disability studies, as an interdisciplinary field, and accessibility features,…
"The History of "Impairment
Impairment is a key term in Anglophone disability studies and medical discourse, referring to physical difference, limitation, or injury. Yet its history has been obscured or misunderstood. When disability scholars and activists critique the definition of impairment, they generally place the concept in the genealogy of medicalization and inappropriate pathologization. This article, in contrast, traces the development of the impairment concept to …
Disability, Epistemology, Sciencing
Disability has been a central—if unacknowledged—force in the history of science, as in the scientific disciplines. Across historical epistemology and laboratory research, disability has been “good to think with”: an object of investigation made to yield generalizable truths. Yet disability is rarely imagined to be the source of expertise, especially the kind of expertise that produces scientific knowledge. The introduction to this volume of Osiri…
Thinking with an Accent
Thinking with an Accent casts accent as a powerfully coded yet underexplored mode of perception shaping our global cultural economy. Theorizing accent as a mediatized object, an interdisciplinary method, and an embodied practice, this volume invites readers to think with an accent-to practice a dialogical, multisensorial inquiry that can yield transformative modalities of knowledge, action, and care
Thinking with an Accent
Cultural, and Critical Theory panel "Thinking, Making, and Doing with an Accent" (convened by Ragini and Reid Gómez), and the Global Anglophone Forum's "Accents of the Anglophone" panel at the 2023 MLA for welcoming us into their conversations, and for their terrific engagement with our work.As editors, the four of us have forged a tight bond.Co-editing an anthology and writing together, we have learned, is an exercise in trust.But trust, it turn…
Scores
A prominent voice in the New Disability Arts movement, Carolyn Lazard is a multidisciplinary artist rethinking captioning and other access techniques as tools for composition. Reading several of Lazard’s works and collaborations, this essay theorizes the style of captions that functions as “scores”—open-ended scripts inviting audience members to activate the work, their bodies, and each other. As performance scores, these captions instruct or oth…
Testing Hearing
Introduction
During the Catalyst 5 th anniversary symposium, held online, the opening conversation between Donna Haraway and Banu Subramaniam gravitated to the topic of citation in feminist STS: how we "disappear" each other and how to build new fields of thought through
Saving New Sounds
Is this thing on?Part microphone check, part technical support query; the question seems a fitting way to start this collection, which is not just the book you hold in your hands (or the PDF you see on your screen) but also a vibrant, growing, and slightly temperamental database that indexes millions of podcasts
Vocal Features
This article considers machine methods used in the collection, processing, and application of vocal recordings for speaker identification and speech recognition between 1908 and 1970. The first phonographic archives featured collections of "vocal portraits" that prompted international investigations into the essential features of human voices for individual identification. Visual records of speech later found the same applications, but as "voicep…
Comment from the Field
On April 19 2013-after three years of traveling through bar conversations, texts, and status updates [... refusing] the usual routes of academic knowledge, accumulating meaning the ephemera of conference chatter, social networking, and other queer gatherings (Johnson and McRuer 130)-Cripistemologies came to the metropole (New York University). The conference version of Cripistemologies was hatched the spirit of the roundtable that opens the first…
Bio-X
Bio-X: Review Mara Mills (bio) Adele Clarke, Laura Mamo, Jennifer Ruth Fosket, Jennifer R. Fishman, and Janet K. Shim’s Biomedicalization: Technoscience, Health, and Illness in the U.S Durham: Duke University Press, 2010. Aihwa Ong and Nancy N. Chen’s Asian Biotech: Ethics and Communities of Fate. Durham: Duke University Press, 2010. Biosecurity. Bioinsecurity. Biorisks. Bioavailability. Bioresources. Biovalue. Biocapital. Bioindustry. Bioeconomy…
Media and Prosthesis
Research Article| June 01 2012 Media and Prosthesis: The Vocoder, the Artificial Larynx, and the History of Signal Processing Mara Mills Mara Mills Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Qui Parle (2012) 21 (1): 107-149. https://doi.org/10.5250/quiparle.21.1.0107 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Mara Mills; Media and Prosthesis: The Vocoder, the Artificial Larynx, and the History of Sign…
Introduction
“A/V” seems to belong to the always-already obsolete. Even at the height of the craze for “audiovisual aids” in the mid-twentieth century, its association with the humble schoolroom and the “A/V geek” gave the acronym an air of the outmoded. Overtaken, in quick succession, by “multimedia” and “new media” at the end of the century, the audiovisual seems all the more rudimentary, remedial rather than remediated, or simply a minor component of large…
Deafening
April 01 2011 Deafening: Noise and the Engineering of Communication in the Telephone System Mara Mills Mara Mills Mara Mills is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. She is working on a book about the historical relationship between the telephone system, deafness, and signal processing. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information …
On Disability and Cybernetics
The "hearing glove" presumably invented by Norbert Wiener has been relegated to a footnote in most histories of cybernetics. This article surveys the long history of the hearing glove concept, arguing the significance of this and related speech technologies to the definitions of information, compression, and feedback in twentieth-century communication engineering. Emerging from techniques of "the material voice" in deaf oral education, hearing gl…
Deaf Jam
This article traces the history of speech wave visualization and the longstanding relationship between phonetics, communication engineering, and deaf oral education. American telephone engineers drew on this history to build the sound spectrograph in the 1940s, a machine that transformed the representation of sounds by considering speech not in terms of meaning nor in terms of airborne waveforms but in terms of the characteristics of its percepti…
Deaf Jam
This article traces the history of speech wave visualization and the longstanding relationship between phonetics, communication engineering, and deaf oral education. American telephone engineers drew on this history to build the sound spectrograph in the 1940s, a machine that transformed the representation of sounds by considering speech not in terms of meaning nor in terms of airborne waveforms but in terms of the characteristics of its percepti…
Deafening
April 01 2011 Deafening: Noise and the Engineering of Communication in the Telephone System Mara Mills Mara Mills Mara Mills is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. She is working on a book about the historical relationship between the telephone system, deafness, and signal processing. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information …
Vocal Features
This article considers machine methods used in the collection, processing, and application of vocal recordings for speaker identification and speech recognition between 1908 and 1970. The first phonographic archives featured collections of "vocal portraits" that prompted international investigations into the essential features of human voices for individual identification. Visual records of speech later found the same applications, but as "voicep…
Thinking with an Accent
Cultural, and Critical Theory panel "Thinking, Making, and Doing with an Accent" (convened by Ragini and Reid Gómez), and the Global Anglophone Forum's "Accents of the Anglophone" panel at the 2023 MLA for welcoming us into their conversations, and for their terrific engagement with our work.As editors, the four of us have forged a tight bond.Co-editing an anthology and writing together, we have learned, is an exercise in trust.But trust, it turn…
On Disability and Cybernetics
The "hearing glove" presumably invented by Norbert Wiener has been relegated to a footnote in most histories of cybernetics. This article surveys the long history of the hearing glove concept, arguing the significance of this and related speech technologies to the definitions of information, compression, and feedback in twentieth-century communication engineering. Emerging from techniques of "the material voice" in deaf oral education, hearing gl…
Thinking with an Accent
Thinking with an Accent casts accent as a powerfully coded yet underexplored mode of perception shaping our global cultural economy. Theorizing accent as a mediatized object, an interdisciplinary method, and an embodied practice, this volume invites readers to think with an accent-to practice a dialogical, multisensorial inquiry that can yield transformative modalities of knowledge, action, and care
Media and Prosthesis
Research Article| June 01 2012 Media and Prosthesis: The Vocoder, the Artificial Larynx, and the History of Signal Processing Mara Mills Mara Mills Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Qui Parle (2012) 21 (1): 107-149. https://doi.org/10.5250/quiparle.21.1.0107 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Mara Mills; Media and Prosthesis: The Vocoder, the Artificial Larynx, and the History of Sign…
"The History of "Impairment
Impairment is a key term in Anglophone disability studies and medical discourse, referring to physical difference, limitation, or injury. Yet its history has been obscured or misunderstood. When disability scholars and activists critique the definition of impairment, they generally place the concept in the genealogy of medicalization and inappropriate pathologization. This article, in contrast, traces the development of the impairment concept to …
Disability, Epistemology, Sciencing
Disability has been a central—if unacknowledged—force in the history of science, as in the scientific disciplines. Across historical epistemology and laboratory research, disability has been “good to think with”: an object of investigation made to yield generalizable truths. Yet disability is rarely imagined to be the source of expertise, especially the kind of expertise that produces scientific knowledge. The introduction to this volume of Osiri…
Saving New Sounds
Is this thing on?Part microphone check, part technical support query; the question seems a fitting way to start this collection, which is not just the book you hold in your hands (or the PDF you see on your screen) but also a vibrant, growing, and slightly temperamental database that indexes millions of podcasts
Deaf Jam
This article traces the history of speech wave visualization and the longstanding relationship between phonetics, communication engineering, and deaf oral education. American telephone engineers drew on this history to build the sound spectrograph in the 1940s, a machine that transformed the representation of sounds by considering speech not in terms of meaning nor in terms of airborne waveforms but in terms of the characteristics of its percepti…
Introduction
“A/V” seems to belong to the always-already obsolete. Even at the height of the craze for “audiovisual aids” in the mid-twentieth century, its association with the humble schoolroom and the “A/V geek” gave the acronym an air of the outmoded. Overtaken, in quick succession, by “multimedia” and “new media” at the end of the century, the audiovisual seems all the more rudimentary, remedial rather than remediated, or simply a minor component of large…
Deafening
April 01 2011 Deafening: Noise and the Engineering of Communication in the Telephone System Mara Mills Mara Mills Mara Mills is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. She is working on a book about the historical relationship between the telephone system, deafness, and signal processing. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information …
On Disability and Cybernetics
The "hearing glove" presumably invented by Norbert Wiener has been relegated to a footnote in most histories of cybernetics. This article surveys the long history of the hearing glove concept, arguing the significance of this and related speech technologies to the definitions of information, compression, and feedback in twentieth-century communication engineering. Emerging from techniques of "the material voice" in deaf oral education, hearing gl…
Bio-X
Bio-X: Review Mara Mills (bio) Adele Clarke, Laura Mamo, Jennifer Ruth Fosket, Jennifer R. Fishman, and Janet K. Shim’s Biomedicalization: Technoscience, Health, and Illness in the U.S Durham: Duke University Press, 2010. Aihwa Ong and Nancy N. Chen’s Asian Biotech: Ethics and Communities of Fate. Durham: Duke University Press, 2010. Biosecurity. Bioinsecurity. Biorisks. Bioavailability. Bioresources. Biovalue. Biocapital. Bioindustry. Bioeconomy…
Media and Prosthesis
Research Article| June 01 2012 Media and Prosthesis: The Vocoder, the Artificial Larynx, and the History of Signal Processing Mara Mills Mara Mills Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Qui Parle (2012) 21 (1): 107-149. https://doi.org/10.5250/quiparle.21.1.0107 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Mara Mills; Media and Prosthesis: The Vocoder, the Artificial Larynx, and the History of Sign…
Comment from the Field
On April 19 2013-after three years of traveling through bar conversations, texts, and status updates [... refusing] the usual routes of academic knowledge, accumulating meaning the ephemera of conference chatter, social networking, and other queer gatherings (Johnson and McRuer 130)-Cripistemologies came to the metropole (New York University). The conference version of Cripistemologies was hatched the spirit of the roundtable that opens the first…
Vocal Features
This article considers machine methods used in the collection, processing, and application of vocal recordings for speaker identification and speech recognition between 1908 and 1970. The first phonographic archives featured collections of "vocal portraits" that prompted international investigations into the essential features of human voices for individual identification. Visual records of speech later found the same applications, but as "voicep…
Saving New Sounds
Is this thing on?Part microphone check, part technical support query; the question seems a fitting way to start this collection, which is not just the book you hold in your hands (or the PDF you see on your screen) but also a vibrant, growing, and slightly temperamental database that indexes millions of podcasts
Testing Hearing
Introduction
During the Catalyst 5 th anniversary symposium, held online, the opening conversation between Donna Haraway and Banu Subramaniam gravitated to the topic of citation in feminist STS: how we "disappear" each other and how to build new fields of thought through
Scores
A prominent voice in the New Disability Arts movement, Carolyn Lazard is a multidisciplinary artist rethinking captioning and other access techniques as tools for composition. Reading several of Lazard’s works and collaborations, this essay theorizes the style of captions that functions as “scores”—open-ended scripts inviting audience members to activate the work, their bodies, and each other. As performance scores, these captions instruct or oth…
Thinking with an Accent
Thinking with an Accent casts accent as a powerfully coded yet underexplored mode of perception shaping our global cultural economy. Theorizing accent as a mediatized object, an interdisciplinary method, and an embodied practice, this volume invites readers to think with an accent-to practice a dialogical, multisensorial inquiry that can yield transformative modalities of knowledge, action, and care
Thinking with an Accent
Cultural, and Critical Theory panel "Thinking, Making, and Doing with an Accent" (convened by Ragini and Reid Gómez), and the Global Anglophone Forum's "Accents of the Anglophone" panel at the 2023 MLA for welcoming us into their conversations, and for their terrific engagement with our work.As editors, the four of us have forged a tight bond.Co-editing an anthology and writing together, we have learned, is an exercise in trust.But trust, it turn…
"The History of "Impairment
Impairment is a key term in Anglophone disability studies and medical discourse, referring to physical difference, limitation, or injury. Yet its history has been obscured or misunderstood. When disability scholars and activists critique the definition of impairment, they generally place the concept in the genealogy of medicalization and inappropriate pathologization. This article, in contrast, traces the development of the impairment concept to …
Disability, Epistemology, Sciencing
Disability has been a central—if unacknowledged—force in the history of science, as in the scientific disciplines. Across historical epistemology and laboratory research, disability has been “good to think with”: an object of investigation made to yield generalizable truths. Yet disability is rarely imagined to be the source of expertise, especially the kind of expertise that produces scientific knowledge. The introduction to this volume of Osiri…
Alt Text
From the very beginning, questions of accessibility and disability authorship were imagined as integral to the journal that became Catalyst. On the occasion of Catalyst’s tenth anniversary, Mara Mills initiated a conversation between herself and two other members of the journal’s first editorial team, Louise Hickman and David Serlin, to reflect on the way that feminist disability studies, as an interdisciplinary field, and accessibility features,…
Computer Science (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Cybernetics and Technology in Society (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · History (3 works) · Icon (3 works)