Liana Silva

Managing Editor Liana Silva is a  newly minted PhD from the English department at SUNY Binghamton who works as a Graduate Writing Specialist at the University of Kansas. She is also a regular contributor for the Inside Higher Ed blog University of Venus. Liana’s dissertation, Acts of Home-making, is a study of how African-Americans and Puerto Ricans represent New York City as a home. She comes to sound studies from the angle of cultural studies, where she wonders about the music we listen to and its sociocultural implications. Liana is currently working on an article on representations of American cities in hip hop. When she’s not talking about writing and thinking deep thoughts, she is busy defending pop culture on an intellectual level, recording her daughter’s latest babbles on her iPhone, listening to sports talk radio, and asking people where “home” is.