Rate My Professor Virginia Madsen

Madsen's research specializations include the history and development of audio media, public service broadcasting in radio and audio, documentary forms and traditions, sound design and production, auditory and sound culture studies, podcast studies, audio and radio arts, locative media, and transnational media history. She was chief investigator on the ARC Discovery project 'Cultural Conversations: A History of ABC Radio National' (2014-2020). Key publications include "American radio art and the documentary imagination: breakaway and castaway emissions from broadcast to podcast" (2025), "Propositions from the history of the radio as atelier" (2025), "Composing the radio: musical collaborations and border crossings in drama and features at the Australian public service broadcaster" (2024), and "Resounding silence: recovering the history of radio performance in the Australian Broadcasting Corporation" (2024). Her creative works have earned awards such as Finalist in the Phonurgia Nova Awards for ‘Life and Death in Battambang: Children’s Stories from Cambodia’ (2009) and equal third in the Soundwalk September Awards for ‘Portland: The Town that Built Sydney’ (2023). Productions have been broadcast internationally and acquired by the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. She supervises PhD students in creative practice and teaches radio production, podcasting, sound design, documentary, and journalism.