Biography:

Lisa Cartwright works across film and media studies; gender and sexuality
studies; science, technology, information and medicine studies; and
disability studies. is a professor at UCSD appointed in the Department of
Communication and affiliated with the graduate Science Studies Program and
the undergraduate program in Critical Gender Studies. She is coauthor,
with Marita Sturken, of Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual
Culture (Oxford University Press, Second Edition 2008). That book can be
found in Czech, Korean, and Mandarin. Her most recent book is Moral
Spectatorship: Technologies of Voice and Affect in Postwar Representations
of the Child (Duke University Press, 2008). Her early work on film and
medicine is contained in Screening the Body: Tracing Medicine's Visual
Culture (University of Minnesota Press, 1995). A book with Duke about the
visual culture of transnational adoption is in process. Essays based on
that work can be found here. Lisa is currently working on a book about
animation and the neurologic body, and a collection of essays about
Southern Californian contemporary critical art practice about the
biosocial body, citizenship, and the notion of 'the cut.'