Jacob Smith is co-founder and director of the Master of Arts in Sound Arts and Industries, and professor in the Department of Radio/Television/Film. He is the author of Vocal Tracks: Performance and Sound Media (University of California Press 2008); Spoken Word: Postwar American Phonograph Cultures (University of California Press 2011); The Thrill Makers: Celebrity, Masculinity, and Stunt Performance (University of California Press 2012); and Eco-Sonic Media (University of California Press, 2015). His experimental audiobook, ESC: Sonic Adventure in the Anthropocene (University of Michigan Press 2019) can be heard here: https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.10120795.
He writes and teaches about the cultural history of media, with a focus on sound and the relationship between media and the environment.