lisac@ucsd.edu

Film and media studies, feminist and sexuality studies; disability studies; visual culture in science, health and medicine.

Moral Spectatorship: Technologies of Voice and Affect in Postwar Representations of the Child (Duke University Press, 2008)

Images of Waiting Children: The Visual Culture of Transnational Adoption (Duke University Press, forthcoming 2008)

Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture, co-author Marita Sturken (Oxford University Press, 2001; Second Edition in preparation for 2008)

Screening the Body: Tracing Medicine's Visual Culture (University of Minnesota Press, 1995)

Mandy (1952): on Voice and Listening in the (Deaf) Maternal Melodrama, in the book Medicine's Moving Pictures: Medicine, Health, and Bodies in American Film and Television, ed. Leslie J. Reagan, Nancy Tomes, and Paula A. Treichler (University of Rochester Press, 2008)

Imagination, Multimodality and Embodied Interaction: A Discussion of Sound and Movement in Two Cases of Laboratory and Clinical Magnetic Resonance Imaging, co-authored with Morana Alac, in Science Images and Popular Images of the Sciences, ed. Bernd Huppauf and Peter Weingart (Routledge, 2007)

Shame, Empathy and Looking Practices: Masked Woman in a Wheelchair in a Disability Studies Classroom," co-authored with David Benin, Journal of Visual Culture Vol. 5, No. 2, 155-171 (2006)

Spectatorship and Pity: Representations of the Global Social Orphan in the 1990s," Cultures of Transnational Adoption, ed. Toby Volkman (Duke University Press, 2005)

On the Subject of Neural Prosthesis, co-authored with Brian Goldfarb, The Prosthetic Impulse: From a Posthuman Present to a Biocultural Future, ed. Joanne Morra and Marquard Smith (MIT, 2005)

"'Emergencies of Survival': Moral Spectatorship and the 'New Vision of the Child' in Postwar Child Psychoanalysis," Journal of Visual Culture 3, no 1 (2004)

Current writing projects include:
A major revision of Practices of Looking (2001) for its Second Edition (2008).

Compulsive Animation:
A short book-length history of emulsion-based animation and technologies of political subjectivity and embodiment, featuring essays about the history of rotoscoping and compulsion; body artifacts, puppets, and materiality in the work of Czech animators Jiri Trnka and Jan Svankmaier; embodiment and the politics of space and fantasy in the work of German silhouette animator Lotte Reiniger; and the post-nuclear body in mecha anime.

Nervous Affinities:
A series of autobiographical-theoretical essays on neurology, representation and embodiment, including two essays on spinal cord injury and its visualization in diagnosis and treatment; and one on the emergence and characterization of movement disorders in Tourette syndrome.

Reading the Face:
An essay on the face as a locus on meaning in psychology.