Over the last decade, Lynnee Denise has helped shape the formation of alternative methodologies and subversive ways of knowing. She’s been invited to share her conceptual and theoretical framework by partnering with or residing as a visiting scholar artist in various institutions. Her scholarship has been recognized as an essential part of a call for expanding linear definitions of intellectual rigor.

Museums and art galleries are being forced to reconsider how the hierarchical positioning of visual art and visual culture as the only legible form of artistic expression. By partnering with museums and art institutions worldwide, Lynnée Denise has contributed to the visibility of sound culture. Globally, she’s reached a range of curious patrons who open themselves up to an immersive experience in listening and thinking through sound—a requirement of Denise’s performative lecture practice.

Hearing a DJ at a literary or film festival inspires new questions for engagement. Not only has lynnée denise introduced her work as an independent scholar on the world stage, but she’s also done so by refusing to articulate the relevance of her practice through the prism of linear disciplinary borders. As an author, educator, and sound practitioner, she has found and indeed forced her worldview to become a featured part of festivals and conferences in new and nontraditional ways.