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Jennifer Fleeger is the Marie Frazee-Baldassarre Professor of Film Studies in the Department of English. In 2009 she received her Ph.D. from the University of Iowa, where she began studying film music and sound, work that led to her first book Sounding American: Hollywood, Opera and Jazz. Since then, she has focused on the relationship between voices and technology, writing Mismatched Women: The Siren’s Song Through the Machine and co-editing an anthology on media ventriloquism, all published by Oxford University Press. She teaches courses on American film history, genre, theory, and film music and is currently writing on the aquamusicals of MGM swimming star Esther Williams. Dr. Fleeger also works with Crescendo, a community-based, tuition-free music program, pairing undergraduates with elementary school children to create silent films with live scores.

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