James Batcho, PhD

Teacher I Writer I Sonic artist

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academics, EGS, personal, writing / 26.08.2016

A Disseratation is Not a Book

WALNUT CREEK. Much has changed over the past 10 months. In fact, those months constituted one of the most challenging periods of my life. But somewhere, within the imprecise duration of spring turning into summer, I found myself in a...

academics, EGS, personal, philosophy, writing / 14.07.2015

The Defense

MILAN. I've arrived at Malpensa Airport far too early for my flight to Athens. Time enough to do some writing...

academics, EGS, personal, philosophy, writing / 09.05.2015

Winding Down the Diss

BEIJING. The dissertation is nearly done and I am days from submission. I have to get back to work, so I’ll write more soon. But just for fun, below is the final paragraph of the document. Without reading what came...

James Batcho

My name is James Batcho. I’m a professor, writer and lecturer on a variety of subjects. My book Terrence Malick’s Unseeing Cinema: Memory, Time and Audibility will be published by Palgrave MacMillian in May, 2018. I’ve also authored a textbook on film sound titled Sound for Independent Audiovisual Storytelling and written for Media Culture & Society, Journal of Sonic Studies, The New Soundtrack and Atropos Press. I use this space to write about my interests in philosophy, travel, cinema, music, politics and culture. Some are formal essays written for this space, while others are incomplete fragments of thought or personal reflections. It’s also a space to share my photography.