G Barrett

G Douglas Barrett is an assistant professor in the television, radio and film department. He teaches media production and experimental music, as well as graduate courses in media studies.

Barrett’s research examines how media since the Second World War, including art, music and popular forms, address social and cultural issues. It considers political economy, science and technology, and race, gender and sexuality through critical and interpretive methods from the humanities. His work is situated in media theory, musicology, and sound studies and engages with art history.

Barrett is the author of two books: “Experimenting the Human: Art, Music, and the Contemporary Posthuman” (University of Chicago Press, 2023) and “After Sound: Toward a Critical Music” (Bloomsbury, 2016). His research has appeared in international peer-reviewed journals such as Cultural Critique, Discourse, Postmodern Culture, Mosaic, Twentieth-Century Music, Contemporary Music Review and Technoetic Arts.

Barrett is co-founder and co-leader of Posthumanities: Arts and Sciences, a focus group in SU’s BioInspired Institute that supports collaborations across the arts, humanities, and sciences. He was a recent faculty fellow in SU’s Autonomous Systems Policy Institute (ASPI) and co-organizes the Sound and Media Working Group of the Central New York Humanities Corridor.

Alongside his scholarly work, Barrett’s curatorial and artistic projects have been presented internationally and discussed in Artforum, The Wire, Postmodern Culture, MusikTexte, and Guernica. He has received support from Akademie Schloss Solitude, Franklin Furnace, and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

Barrett holds a Ph.D. from SUNY at Buffalo, an MFA from CalArts, and a BM from Berklee College of Music.