Denise Gill

Denise Gill is an ethnomusicologist and critical Muslim studies scholar who specializes in the sonic, musical, and listening practices in western Turkey and former Ottoman territories. She is the author of the prize-winning book Melancholic Modalities: Affect, Islam, and Turkish Classical Musicians (Oxford University Press, 2017). Her intellectual program is animated by a commitment to anti-colonial and anti-imperial ethnographic methods, and her publications are the products of participatory action research, oral history methods, historical work in Ottoman archives, and over six years of ethnographic fieldwork with Turkish-speaking communities. Dr. Gill’s current book projects focus on distinct listening structures attuned to the sounds of death, loss, and migratory thresholds.