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Paul N. Reinsch is a historian of mediated performance: audio-visual, sonic, and “live.” His pedagogy and scholarly work often particularly addresses sound(s) and argues for the intersection of history and theory in accounting for this neglected component of mediated (and non-mediated) performance. Paul has created courses on Disney, adaptation, media sound, theatre history, film history (US and international), film theory, theatre theory, research methods, genre (the musical, the western), and specific artists such as Orson Welles, Kathryn Bigelow and Brian De Palma.

Paul is the author of A Critical Bibliography of Shirley Jackson, an editor of The Soundtrack Album: Listening to Media, and Python beyond Python: Critical Engagement with Culture. His work has also appeared in journals such as Music and the Moving Image, Spectrum: A Journal on Black Men, Quarterly Review of Film and Video and International Journal of Business Communication. Other work is featured in edited collections such as The Purple One: Prince, Race, Gender, and Everything in Between, Kedi: A Docalogue, The Oxford Handbook of Cinematic Listening, and From Madea to Media Mogul: Critical Perspectives on Tyler Perry. Paul has presented his work internationally at conferences including Theatre Symposium, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Music and the Moving Image, The Experience Music Project Pop Conference, the Popular Cultural Association, and Association for Business Communication.

While teaching at Texas Tech, Paul is proud to have worked alongside Natalie Mayo and Jared Roberts to earn the School of Theatre and Dance the Presidential Departmental Excellence in Safety Award in 2024. Paul has also been a member of the President’s Leadership Institute, a Texas Tech Integrated Scholar, a member of the Institute for Inclusive Excellence, a Humanities Center Faculty Fellow and twice had the privilege of serving on the Humanities Center’s Annual Planning committee to program films and Q&A sessions at area movie theaters.