Prof. Laudadio's research deals with the role machines play in producing and reproducing culture, focusing primarily on acoustic/musical technologies and their place in science fiction and science fiction cinema. He's currently at work on a critical and cultural history of the electronic musical instrument called Singing Machines.

ENG 315: Writing about Music

ENG/FST 317: Writing about Film

ENG 384: Reading Popular Culture

ENG 496: Acoustic Environments

ENG 502: Introduction to Literary and Critical Theory

ENG 580: Introduction to Cultural Studies

FST 368: Science Fiction Film

• "Just Like So But Isn't: Musical Consciousness and Richard Powers' Galatea 2.2." Extrapolation 49:4 2008.

• "What Dreams Sound Like: Forbidden Planet and the Electronic Musical Instrument." Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 17:4 2007.

• "The Electronic Musical Instrument in Film Song and Sound." Continuum Companion to Sound and Music in Film and Visual Media. London: Continuum Press, 2008.