Ryan Schnurr

Hi there—Ryan Schnurr here.

I write, teach, make audio stories, facilitate events, and other things like that. Mostly at the intersection of U.S. culture and literature, film and media studies, and the built environment.

I’m currently an assistant professor in the Department of Humanities and Communication at Trine University. I’ve got a PhD in American Studies from Purdue University and an M.A. in Communication and Media Studies from the University of Illinois-Chicago.

My academic work focuses on structures and infrastructures in popular media—energy imaginaries, cities and visual culture, television and post-9/11 affect, etc.

I also do a lot of journalistic and public humanities work, collaborating with Indiana Humanities, Belt Magazine, and the Humanity and Technoscience (HAT) Lab at Northwestern University, among others.

I created and produced the podcast series Fire!, which Bill McKibben of The New Yorker called a “fascinating new podcast about some of the remarkable industrial fires in American history.” (I talked about it here.)

I used to edit Belt Magazine and still contribute there sometimes.

I’ve also written and made audio about trains, oil pipelines, windmills, state borders, and bird-friendly architecture, among other things.

Get in touch: ryanschnu at gmail.

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