John  Picker is Visiting Associate Professor in MIT's Literature section, where he teaches courses in nineteenth-, twentieth-, and twenty-first century literature and comparative media studies. He comes to MIT from Harvard's English department. His interests include Victorian literature, transatlantic studies, auditory culture, and media history. He is the author of Victorian Soundscapes (Oxford University Press, 2003) and Electric Affinities: Literature, Race, and the Media of Transatlantic Victorianism (Oxford University Press, in progress). His essay "Two National Anthems" was published in A New Literary History of America in 2009. His articles, book chapters, and reviews have appeared in ELH, New Literary History, Victorian Studies, Judaism, The American Scholar, Victorian Review, Walt Whitman and Modern Music, Shakespearean Criticism, and Victorian Soundscapes Revisited. He is co-chair of the Victorian Literature and Culture seminar at Harvard’s Humanities Center.

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