Dr Jennifer Smith
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About
Overview
Jennifer Smith is a Lecturer in Music at City, University London. Jennifer teaches on sound and the moving image, alongside video game music. Her research focuses on voices as worldbuilding tools in video games, and how they engage the player with the characters and environments of the world alongside music and sound.
Jennifer is a reviews editor for the Journal for Sound and Music in Games (JSMG) alongside an editor for the online student journal, Sonic Scope.
Qualifications
- PhD, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom, September 2016 - October 2020
- Masters by Reserch, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom, 2014 - September 2016
- BMus Hons, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom, September 2011 - June 2014
Employment
- Lecturer in Music, City, University of London, United Kingdom, January 2022 - present
- University Teacher, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom, December 2021 - June 2022
- Part Time Hourly Paid Lecturer, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom, December 2020 - present
Publications
Publications by category
Chapters (3)
- Smith, J. (2025). 9 ‘BUT THE RIGHT WORDS, NEVER COME’: TRANSFORMATIVE IDENTITIES, FEMALE AGENCY AND PERFORMANCE IN SAYONARA WILD HEARTS (2019). Singing Out (pp. 136-146). Edinburgh University Press.
- Smith, J. (2024). "I must be beautiful”: becoming human through adaptive vocal soundscapes. In Galloway, K. and Hambleton, E. (Eds.), Music and Sonic Environments in Video Games Listening to and Performing Ludic Soundscapes Routledge. ISBN 9781032230320.
- Smith, J. (2024). Early music in the ‘early game’. In Cook, J., Kolassa, A., Robinson, A. and Whittaker, A. (Eds.), History as Fantasy in Music, Sound, Image, and Media (pp. 83-101). New York, USA: Routledge. ISBN 9781032271866.
Journal articles (3)
- Smith, J. (2024). Welsh voices and the magical localization. Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies, 9(1), pp. 49-61. doi:10.1386/jivs_00091_1
- Smith, J. (2021). Voices, Combat, and Music. Journal of Sound and Music in Games, 2(2), pp. 42-62. doi:10.1525/jsmg.2021.2.2.42
- Smith, J. (2019). Vocal disruptions in the aural game world: The female entertainer in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Transistor and Divinity: Original Sin II. Soundtrack, The, 11(1), pp. 75-97. doi:10.1386/ts_00006_1