Gabrielle Berry is a PhD candidate in Cinema and Media studies at the University of British Columbia. She holds a BA (Honors) in Film and English from Queen’s University, Ontario, and an MA in Film Studies from UBC. Her research focuses on the intersections of sound, disability, and technology studies. Her dissertation project, “[♪♪♪]: The Sonic Resonances of Captions,” addresses the relationship between closed captions and sound in cinema, television, and new media, to show how captions create sonic meaning and structure the audio-visual experience for D/deaf, hard of hearing and hearing audiences. 

Gabrielle is a recipient of the SSHRC and Killam doctoral awards, and the Claudia Gorbman Graduate Student Writing Award. She is also a member of the Public Scholars Initiative Program at UBC. Her work appears in The Soundtrack; Music, Sound and the Moving Image, and Cinephile.

“Looping Forward Together: Animating Autism in Loop (2020).” Cinephile, vol. 18, no.2, 2024. https://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/cinephile/issue/view/183193.

“[Bones cracking]: Reading and listening to Foley and captions.” The Soundtrack, vol.16, 2024,https://doi.org/10.1386/ts_00032_1. 

“[Inaudible]: Point of Audition Rrepresentations of Deafness and the Cochlear Implant in A Quiet Place (2018).” Music, Sound, and the Moving Image, vol. 15, no.2, 2021. https://doi.org/10.3828/msmi.2021.8.