Emilie Morin

Bio

Emilie Morin is Professor of Modern Literature at the University of York. Recent publications on radio and modernism include Early Radio: An Anthology of European Texts and Translations (2023) and chapters in “This is Channel Earth”: 100 Years of Global Radio Play (2024) and The Oxford Handbook of W. B. Yeats (2023).

Contributions

The Lyrical Literature of Distant Listening

Peer Reviewed

From the Print Journal

© 2026 Johns Hopkins University Press Distant listening—a practice born with radio amateurism, known as DXing among American radio enthusiasts—was the term used to designate an essential dimension of radio during the interwar period: the capacity to listen to radio stations far away. [1] What this involved was not just the fine-tuning of a wireless set, but educated guesses about foreign identification signals, languages and speech patterns, and frequent battles against unwanted noise and...

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