Professor of Film and Media Studies
Professor Penley's major areas of research interest are film history and theory, feminist theory, cultural studies, contemporary art, and science and technology studies. She is a founding editor of Camera Obscura: Feminism, Media, Cultural Studies. Her most recent work includes NASA/TREK: Popular Science and Sex in America and The Visible Woman: Imaging Technologies, Science and Gender (ed. with Treichler and Cartwright). Her collaborative art projects include "MELROSE SPACE: Primetime Art by the GALA Committee" (
www.arts.ucsb.edu/mpart) and "Biospheria: An Environmental Opera," on which she was co-librettist
(www.crca.ucsb.edu/biospheria). She is also co-director of the Carsey-Wolf Center for Film Television and New Media.
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