About Sadie Couture

I earned my PhD from the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University, and I am currently a postdoctoral research fellow jointly appointed at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History and Northwestern University’s Department of Radio/Television/Film. I am interested in the relationships between culture, technology, and politics and the critical, historical study of our mediated worlds.

Sadie Couture is a historian of digital culture and a critical media studies scholar and practitioner trained in media history and theory, science and technology studies, and sound studies methodologies.Find out more about her work at https://www.sadiecouture.com/.
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NBN Episodes hosted by Sadie:

Intersectional Listening: Gentrification and Black Sonic Life in Washington, DC with Allie Martin (Oxford UP, 2025)

November 8, 2026

Intersectional Listening

Allie Martin
Hosted by Sadie Couture

Gentrification is often considered through a visual lens, where development, progress, and neighborhood changes are observed. But what does gentrifica…

Emily Doucet, "Inventing Nadar: A History of Photographic Firsts" (Duke UP, 2026)

June 16, 2026

Inventing Nadar

Emily Doucet
Hosted by Sadie Couture

Félix Nadar took the first aerial photograph in 1858, so the story goes. The evidence, Emily Doucet notes, is mixed. In Inventing Nadar: A History of …

Patrick Brodie, "Wild Tides: Media Infrastructure and Financial Crisis in Ireland" (Duke UP, 2026)

June 13, 2026

Wild Tides

Patrick Brodie
Hosted by Sadie Couture

In Wild Tides: Media Infrastructure and Financial Crisis in Ireland (Duke University Press, 2026), Patrick Brodie maps the shifting fortunes of the Ir…

Patrick Brodie and Darin Barney eds., "Media Rurality" (Duke UP, 2026)

May 3, 2026

Media Rurality

Patrick Brodie and Darin Barney
Hosted by Sadie Couture

Media Rurality (Duke UP, 2026), edited by Darin Barney and Patrick Brodie, investigates the centrality of rural places and people within the media sys…