Margaret McCurry
Ph.D. Candidate, New York University
My theoretical framework seeks to elucidate the nuanced relationship between the sonic and the somatic, whether resonating within the corporeal bodies of characters or resounding across a literary corpus.
Margaret McCurry (she/her/hers) is a doctoral candidate studying Medieval Literature at New York University. Fascinated by the moments when words fail to fully capture or articulate meaning, her theoretical interests lie in philosophies of mediation and signification, musicology and sound studies, and disability studies. Her dissertation, “Vox in Absentia: Unveiling the Acousmatic Voice in Late Medieval English Literature,” examines how disembodied voices in medieval texts destabilize the metaphysics of presence, exposing a hermeneutic rupture where sound is severed from its source.