Dr. Chris Mustazza is Co-Director of the PennSound Archive, the world’s largest archives of recordings of poets, and he teaches in the English department at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on the history of literary audio, sonic media archaeology, and digital analyses of poetry recordings. His book The Poetic Record: Collecting Poets’ Voices during the Period of Early Sound Recording (Edinburgh University Press 2026) explores the earliest attempts to record, collect, and analyze poets’ voices.