Lisa Cartwright
Professor of Communication and Science Studies
Affiliated Faculty in Critical Gender Studies
Introduction to Communication and Culture
MWF 2:00 – 2:50, WLH
- Office hours W 10:30-12 MCC 124b
Education
Ph.D. in American Studies, Yale University (1991)
BFA in Film and Television, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University (1982)
Research
Film and media studies, feminist and sexuality studies; disability studies; visual culture in science, health and medicine.
Publications
- Practices of Looking, Second Edition, Revised and Expanded (Oxford 2008)
- 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
- Screening the Body: Tracing Medicine's Visual Culture (University of Minnesota Press, 1995)
- The Visible Woman: Imaging Technologies, Gender and Science, a volume coedited with Paula Treichler and Constance Penley (NYU Press, 1998)
- 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)
Courses:
- COCU124 Winter 10 - Office hours MCC 124B Wednesdays 10:30-12
- COCU139 Winter 10 - Office Hours: W 10:30-12 MCC 124B
- COCU108 Visual Culture, Winter 09
- COGR 200B: Introduction to the Study of Communication and Culture, Winter 2009
- COCU 141A Media and technology: Global Nature, Global Culture
- COCU 141C Media and Technology: Disability
- COCU 124 Documentary History and Theory
- COCU 139 Reproductive Discourse and Gender (4) Lisa Cartwright