dr Jack Harrison
Department of North American Cultures and Literatures
Assistant Professor
Room number: 3.415
email: j.harrison@uw.edu.pl
Fridays 13:15–15:00
Degrees
BA in Music, University of Cambridge, 2012
MMus in Advanced Musical Studies (Ethnomusicology Pathway), Royal Holloway: University of London, 2014
PhD in Ethnomusicology, University of Toronto, 2021
Research interests and projects
- Music, sound, and society
- Human-animal studies
- Environmental humanities
- Multispecies ethnomusicology
- Music in sport
- Dance
- Film music
Selected publications
Journal Co-editor
Włodarczyk, Justyna and Harrison, Jack. 2024. “Special Issue: Figurations of Interspecies Harmony in North American Literature and Culture.” European Journal of American Studies 19 (1). https://doi.org/10.4000/ejas.21279
Journal Articles
Harrison, Jack. 2020. ‘From the Horse’s Mouth: Musical “Originality” in Freestyle Dressage.’ Ethnomusicology Forum 29 (2): 145-165. https://doi.org/10.1080/17411912.2020.1831395
Harrison Jack, and Kruszona, Sara. 2024. ‘“The Way of Disc Dog”: Navigating Harmonies in American Canine Frisbee.’ European Journal of American Studies 19 (1). https://doi.org/10.4000/ejas.21365
Włodarczyk, Justyna, and Harrison, Jack. 2024. ‘Introduction. Discordant Harmonies: Interspecies Relations in the United States.’ European Journal of American Studies 19 (1). https://doi.org/10.4000/ejas.21284
Book Chapters
Harrison, Jack. Forthcoming. ‘“Public Enemy Number One!”: Music and Mosquito Sound in Disney’s The Winged Scourge (1943)’. In Beyond the Human Voice: Dystopian Soundscapes in the Arts, edited by Martin Ullrich and Susanne Rode-Breymann. Cultural Animal Studies. Berlin, Heidelberg: J.B. Metzler.
________. 2024. ‘Musicking with the Enemy: Mosquito Agency, Control, and Representation on Film’. In Re-Thinking Agency: Non-Anthropocentric Approaches, edited by Paweł Piszczatowski. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Verlage.
Reviews
Harrison, Jack. 2025. ‘Music, Language, and Technology in More-Than-Human Sonic Cultures’. Journal of the Royal Musical Association 149 (2): 627-637. https://doi.org/10.1017/rma.2024.39
_______. 2024. ‘Sound and Zoonotic Spillover: Listening to Animal Crossing through the Covid-19 Pandemic.’ Sound Studies 10 (1): 131-137.https://doi.org/10.1080/20551940.2024.2306780
Older publications can be found on the complete list in PBN
Other
Jack's scholarship sits at the intersection of music and human-animal studies and explores what might be revealed about music’s relationship to sociality when society is framed in terms of multispecies entanglements. Before moving to Warsaw in 2021, Jack studied at the University of Toronto where he completed his PhD in ethnomusicology. His doctoral dissertation examines how rhythm, melody, choreographic form and musical recordings help to configure horse–human, dog–human, and human–human relations in British interspecies sports. His current work explores how ideas about music shape and are shaped by discourses on ideal more-than-human relations, including relations between humans and mosquitoes and between humans and coyotes in the US.