Jennifer Iverson is a scholar of electronic music, sound studies, and disability studies. She is currently writing a book about synthesizers, which explores the complex histories and (mis)uses of instruments such as the vocoder, Moog, the DX7, and the TR-808. Her first book is Electronic Inspirations: Technologies of the Cold War Musical Avant-Garde (2019). Iverson is Associate Professor in the Department of Music and the College at the University of Chicago.