Tom McEnaney is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Spanish & Portuguese at the University of California, Berkeley. He taught for six years in the Department of Comparative Literature at Cornell University before returning to Berkeley, where he previously earned his PhD in Comparative Literature. His work focuses on the intersection of sound studies, media theory, architectural theory, and linguistic anthropology in the literatures and cultures of the Americas, especially Argentina, Cuba, and the United States. His articles have appeared in Representations, Variaciones Borges, Cultural Critique, Revista de estudios hispánicos, Sounding Out!, and La Habana Elegante, among others.