Marie Thompson is Senior Lecturer in Popular Music aan The Open University. Zij is auteur van Beyond Unwanted Sound: Noise, Affect and Aesthetic Moralism (Bloomsbury, 2017), Sonic Surrogates: Music, Automation and the Crisis of Reproduction (UC Press, aankomend) en, samen met Annie Goh, Sonic Cyberfeminisms (Goldsmiths Press, aankomend).