John Melillo is an ACLS New Faculty Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona. His book project, Outside In: Noisescapes from Dada to Punk examines how ways of listening connect poetry, music, and noise in the twentieth century. He has written on the poetics of punk rock, the aesthetics of driving, and the poetry of T.S. Eliot. John also plays guitar, sings, and makes noise in the band Algae & Tentacles.

Photograph by Annie Guthrie