Doctoral Student Public Humanities Fellow
PhD Candidate, Ethnomusicology, Department of Music, Graduate School of Arts & Science
Public Humanities Project: NYC Community Recording Studio for Women and Girls
Dissertation: Female Music Producers: Sonic Innovation from the Professional Periphery
Adele Fournet is a PhD candidate in Ethnomusicology at New York University where she is writing about the intersections of gender, technology, labor, and aesthetic values in popular music production, as well as pursuing activist research methodologies in critical music studies. She is also a musician, producer and videographer in New York City. She directs a web series about female music producers called Bit Rosie (www.bitrosie.com), which became the NYU library’s first music-related streaming video archive in 2017. Her films have been screened on PBS New York and at the NYC Independent Film Festival. Current projects and collaborations include Bit Rosie, Cuttingbird, CorpusMedio, Celeste Krishna, and digitice.org.