Christine Capetola is an Andrew W. Mellon Engaged Scholar Initiative Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin.  Her research mobilizes sound and vibration as analytics for studying identity formation and historicizing the recent past.  Her dissertation work traces the aesthetic and political resonances in how black pop stars in the 1980s and the contemporary artists who cite them utilized(d) digital music technology to navigate—and disorient—hypervisible representations of race, gender, and sexuality.  Her article "Starting Something: Synthesizers and Rhythmic Reorientations in Michael Jackson’s 'Billie Jean'" is published in Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society.  She has book chapters on black queer femme lineages of house music and on the vibrational aesthetics of Janelle Monáe’s music forthcoming in The Oxford Handbook of Electronic Dance Music and The Routledge Companion to Cyberpunk Culture, respectively.  Christine is a music writer for Bitch Media and blogs about contemporary pop and R&B on her website.