<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Dear colleagues,<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">I'm thrilled to announce that Palgrave has just published my book, <i><b>Sound and Sense in Contemporary Theatre: Mad Auralities</b></i><b>. <br></b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br><a href="https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-78034-9">https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-78034-9<br><br></a>"This book is among the first to consider the subject of mad auralities in theatre and performance, asking: what does it mean to hear and listen madly? Drawing widely upon mad studies, critical disability studies, theatre studies, sound studies, queer studies, and critical race theory, it seeks to explore the theatrical relationship between sound and mental health differences by examining a range of case studies in which audience members are immersed in auditory simulations of madness."<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Best,<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Matthew<br><br></div></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">Dr. Matthew Tomkinson</span></b><span style="color:black"> (they/he)<br>
<i>SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow <br></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Department of <a href="https://ces.ubc.ca/" target="_blank">
<span style="color:#0563c1">Central, Eastern, & Northern European Studies</span></a><br>
The University of British Columbia | Unceded <span>Musqueam</span> Territory<br>
917-1873 East Mall | Vancouver BC | V6T 1Z1 Canada<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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