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BIOGRAPHY Here’s the bio that I usually send out upon request, so please feel free to use this:

Robin James is an independent scholar and editor. Her fifth book, Good Vibes Only: Phenomenology, Algorithms, and the Politics of Legitimation, is under contract with Duke University Press, and an expanded second edition of her book Resilience & Melancholy is under contract with The University of Michigan Press. Her previous four books include: The Future of Rock and Roll: 97X WOXY and the Fight for True Independence (UNC Press, 2023), The Sonic Episteme: acoustic resonance, neoliberalism, & biopolitics (Duke University Press, 2019), Resilience & Melancholy: pop music, feminism, and neoliberalism (Zero, 2015), and The Conjectural Body: gender, race and the philosophy of music (Lexington Books, 2010). Her writing has appeared in venues such as Jezebel, The Guardian, LARB, Real Life, BELT Magazine, The New Inquiry, SoundingOut!, Hypatia, differences, and the Journal of Popular Music Studies, and elsewhere across the internet. She’s an expert in feminism/gender/race and popular music, pop music and politics, sound studies, electronic dance music studies, and contemporary continental philosophy (especially critical theories of neoliberalism and biopolitics). She is also working on new book projects about the alt-rock-to-alt-right pipeline and a 33 1/3 proposal on The Breeders’ Last Splash.

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Here is the latest copy of Robin’s CV, including links to all her publications.

All inquiries not related to my day job at a publisher, including freelance inquiries, should be directed to robinmjames7@gmail.com. I continue to accept invitations to speak about either my research and/or scholarly publishing.

Here is the latest copy of Robin’s resume, and her LinkedIn page.