Anthony Grajeda

Department of English

Associate Professor

Anthony.Grajeda@ucf.edu

Campus Location

Trevor Colbourn Hall 253C

Education

Ph.D. in Modern Studies, Department of English from The University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee (2001)

Publications

Books

Music, Sound, and Technology in America: A Documentary History of Early Phonograph, Cinema, and Radio. Co-Edited by Timothy D. Taylor and Mark Katz. Duke University Press, 2012
Jay Beck and Tony Grajeda, editors, Lowering the Boom: Critical Studies in Film Sound (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2008) and in translation: Chinese (Beijing: China Film Press, 2013)

Articles/Essays

“The ‘Sweet Spot’: The Technology of Stereo and the Field of Auditorship,” in eds., Paul Théberge, Kyle Devine, and Tom Everett, Living Stereo: Histories and Cultures of Multichannel Sound (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015), 37-63.
“Post-War Postponed: War without End, the Returning Soldier in American Cinema, and the Gendered Representation of Trauma,” Special Issue on “Media, Technology and the Culture of Militarism,” eds., Robin Andersen and Tanner Mirrlees, Democratic Communiqué (Vol. 26, No. 2, Fall 2014), 55-71.
“Early Mood Music: Edison’s Phonography, American Modernity and the Instrumentalization of Listening,” in Marta García Quiñones, Anahid Kassabian and Elena Boschi, eds., Ubiquitous Musics: The Everyday Sounds That We Don’t Always Notice (Farnham, U.K.: Ashgate, 2013), 31-47.
“’A Question of the Ear’: Listening to Touch of Evil,” in Jay Beck and Tony Grajeda, eds., Lowering the Boom: Critical Studies in Film Sound (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2008), 201-217.
“The Winning and Losing of Hearts and Minds: Vietnam, Iraq, and the Claims of the War Documentary,” Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media 49 (Spring 2007), 38 ms. pages; 41 web pages: http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/jc49.2007/Grajeda/index.html.
“Picturing Torture: Gulf Wars Past and Present,” in Andrew Martin and Patrice Petro, eds., Rethinking Global Security: Media, Popular Culture, and the “War on Terror” (New Brunswick, NJ and London: Rutgers University Press, 2006), 206-235.
“Disasterologies,” Social Epistemology: A Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Policy, special issue on “After Social Construction: Technology, Knowledge, and Society” 19:4 (October-December 2005), 315-319.
"The Sound of Disaffection," in Henry Jenkins, Tara McPherson, and Jane Shattuc, eds., Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2002), 357-375.
"The 'Feminization' of Rock," in Roger Beebe, Denise Fulbrook and Ben Saunders, eds., Rock Over the Edge: Transformations of Popular Music Culture (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2002), 233-254.

Book Sections/Chapters

“Introduction: Cinema,” in Timothy D. Taylor, Mark Katz and Tony Grajeda, editors, Music, Sound, and Technology in America: A Documentary History of Early Phonograph, Cinema, and Radio (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2012), 137-44, 378-82.
Jay Beck and Tony Grajeda, “Introduction: The Future of Film Sound Studies,” in Beck and Grajeda, eds., Lowering the Boom: Critical Studies in Film Sound (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2008), 1-20.

Miscellaneous Publications

Journals (Guest Editor)
Music, Sound, and the Moving Image 2:2 (Autumn 2008 [published 2009]), Special Issue on “The Future of Sound Studies,” co-edited with Jay Beck, with co-authored introduction, 109-114.

Course #	Course	Title	Mode	Days/Times	Syllabus
82543	ENG3014	Theories and Tech of Lit Study	Web-Based (W)	7:00 PM - 7:00 PM	Unavailable
“Theories of Literature” is a gateway course designed to introduce students to the theory and practice of contemporary approaches to the academic study of literary and cultural texts. The course will cover many of the most prominent and influential “schools of thought” or critical theories of literature, including New Criticism, structuralism, poststucturalism/deconstruction, psychoanalysis, feminism, sexuality/queer studies, Marxism, new historicism, postcolonial theory, race and ethnic studies, reader response, disability studies, and eco-criticism. We will study explanatory texts about the various theories, along with representative texts of theory itself. We will also apply these approaches to literary and cultural texts ranging from canonical works to popular forms (such as film). We will engage with the scholarly debate in literary studies and work toward the construction of an advanced analytical paper in preparation for 4000-level coursework.
82708	ENG3014	Theories and Tech of Lit Study	Web-Based (W)	7:00 PM - 7:00 PM	Unavailable
“Theories of Literature” is a gateway course designed to introduce students to the theory and practice of contemporary approaches to the academic study of literary and cultural texts. The course will cover many of the most prominent and influential “schools of thought” or critical theories of literature, including New Criticism, structuralism, poststucturalism/deconstruction, psychoanalysis, feminism, sexuality/queer studies, Marxism, new historicism, postcolonial theory, race and ethnic studies, reader response, disability studies, and eco-criticism. We will study explanatory texts about the various theories, along with representative texts of theory itself. We will also apply these approaches to literary and cultural texts ranging from canonical works to popular forms (such as film). We will engage with the scholarly debate in literary studies and work toward the construction of an advanced analytical paper in preparation for 4000-level coursework.
93233	ENG3073	Cultural Studies Literature	In Person (P)	Tu,Th 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM	Unavailable
What do memes, rap beefs, Disney princesses, video games, zombie movies, fan fiction, mash-ups, and viral videos have in common? They have all come under the scrutiny of what is called "cultural studies." As a relatively new academic field, cultural studies addresses the increasing importance of “culture” to post-industrial consumer societies over the past few decades. This course will begin by tracing some of the historical debates on the emergence of commercial mass culture since the late 19th Century—as necessary background to our work—before considering several theoretical approaches to the study of culture, including the Frankfurt School, British cultural studies, contemporary feminist theory, and American cultural populism. Following these sessions on cultural theory, the course will proceed to the application of cultural studies by taking up its interdisciplinary method of interpreting and "reading" culture, turning to specific examples of analyzing the texts and practices of popular culture: advertising, television, movies, pop music, and other forms of "entertainment." Our work will consist of weekly readings, several short response papers as well as a final term paper, and lively discussion of the culture of everyday life.

Course #	Course	Title	Mode	Days/Times	Syllabus
19829	LIT3605	Literature and War	Web-Based (W)	7:00 PM - 7:00 PM	Unavailable
12555	LIT6936	Studies in Lct Theory	In Person (P)	Tu 6:00 PM - 8:50 PM	Unavailable