Naomi Waltham-Smith

Naomi Waltham-Smith is Professor of Music at the University of Oxford and Douglas Algar Tutorial Fellow at Merton College. She works at the intersection of sound and music studies with deconstruction, decolonial theory, and Black radical thought, focusing on the politics of listening. She is the author of Music and Belonging between Revolution and Restoration (Oxford University Press, 2017), Shattering Biopolitics: Militant Listening and the Sound of Life (Fordham University Press, 2021), Mapping (Post)colonial Paris by Ear (Cambridge University Press, 2023), and Free Listening (Nebraska University Press, 2024).