Lisa Cartwright (Communication)
 lisac@ucsd.edu

University of California, San Diego
Department of Communication, 0503
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0503
Phone: (858) 822-2695

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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

Selected Publications:
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-authored with Marita Sturken (Oxford University Press, 2001; Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2008)

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

The Visible Woman: Imaging Technologies, Gender and Science, coedited with Puala 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)