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Academic Positions

2002 – present, Associate Professor, 1998-2002 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Film Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara. Affiliated Faculty, Women’s Studies Program, University of California at Santa Barbara

Spring 2003, Visiting Professor, School of Cinema and Television, USC.

March 2003, Visiting Professor, Institutum Studiorum Humanitas (Ljubljana Graduate School of the Humanities) Slovenia

1998, Lecturer, Women’s Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Education

Ph.D. 1998, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Communication Arts, Media and Cultural Studies Program. Distributed Minor: Technology and Culture.

M.A., 1993, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Communication Arts, Media and Cultural Studies Program.

B.A. with high honors, 1990. University of Montana-Missoula. Combined major in Political Science and History with emphasis in International Studies and Comparative Politics.

Publications

Books

Cultures in Orbit: Satellites and the Televisual. Durham: Duke University Press, forthcoming 2004.

Planet TV: A Global Television Reader, co-edited with Shanti Kumar, New York University Press, 2002.

Red Noise: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Television Studies (working title), co-edited with Elana Levine, Durham: Duke University Press, forthcoming 2004.

Refereed Articles

“Orbital Performers and Satellite Translators: Art in the Age of Ionospheric Exchange,” in review Space and Culture.

“As the Earth Spins: NBC’s Wide Wide World and Live Global Television in the 1950s.” Screen, vol. 42, no. 4, winter 2001.

“Satellite Views of Srebrenica: Televisuality and the Politics of Witnessing,” Social Identities, fall 2001. Short version reprinted in ATHENA, winter 2002.

“Africa on Camera: Televised Video Footage and Aerial Imaging of the Rwandan Refugee Crisis,” co-authored with Jo Ellen Fair, Africa Today, vol. 48, 2001.

“Plotting the Personal: Global Positioning Satellites and Interactive Media.” Ecumene: A Journal of Cultural Geographies (London UK), vol. 9, no. 2, 2001, pp. 209-222. Expanded version translated into German and published in catalogue of Geography and the Politics of Mobility art exhibition, Generali Foundation Gallery, Vienna, Austria, 2003.

“Cracking Open the Set: Television Repair and Tinkering with Gender, 1949-1955,” Television and New Media, vol. 1, no. 3, August 2000. Reprinted in Small Screens, Big Ideas: Television in the 1950s,” Janet Thumim, ed. London: IB Tauris, 2001.

“Watching the ‘Working Gals’: Fifties Sitcoms and the Repositioning of Women in Postwar American Culture,” Critical Matrix: The Princeton Journal of Women, Gender, and Culture, Winter 1999.

“Technology in the Twilight: A Cultural History of the First Earth Satellite,” Humanities and Technology Review, fall 1997.

Book Chapters

“Falling Apart: Electronics Salvaging and the Global Media Economy,” in Residual Media, Charles Acland, ed. University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming.

“Kinetic Screens: Epistemologies of Movement at the Interface,” in Media/Space: Place, Scale and Culture in a Media Age,” eds. Nick Couldry and Anna McCarthy, London: Routledge, 2003.

“Orbit-Performance-Kunstler und Satelliten-Ubersetzer: Kunst in Zeitalter des ionospharishen Austauschs,” Inverventionen, Zurich: ITH-Z, 2003, pp. 65-83.

“Satellite and Cyber Visualities: Analyzing the Digital Earth,” Visual Culture Reader 2.0, Nicholas Mirzoeff, ed. New York and London: Routledge, 2003. Translated into Dutch and reprinted in Journal of Dutch Gender Studies, 2003.

“Log On: The Oxygen Media Research Project,” with Anna Everett and Constance Penley. In Digi-textualities, eds. John Caldwell and Anna Everett, London: Routledge, 2003.

“Flexible Microcasting: Gender, Generation and Television and Internet Convergence.” In The Persistence of Television: From Console to Computer, Lynn Spigel, ed. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003.

“Brave New Buffy: Rethinking ‘TV Violence.’” In Quality Popular Television: Cult TV, Industry and Fans, Mark Jancovich and James Lyons, eds. London: British Film Institute, 2003.

“US Television Abroad” and “Baywatch.” In The Television History Book, ed. Michele Hilmes. London: British Film Institute, 2002.

“Gender and US Television.” In The Television Studies Book, ed. Toby Miller. London: British Film Institute, 2002.

“Our World, Satellite Televisuality and The Fantasy of Global Presence.” In Planet TV: A Global Television Reader, Lisa Parks and Shanti Kumar, eds. New York: New York University Press, 2002.

“Satellitenbilder Suchen,” in Suchbilder, eds. Wolfgang Ernst, Stefan Heidenreich and Ute Holl, Bildarchive der Gegenwart, Berlin (Kadmos Kulturverlag) 2003.

“Satellite Rhythms: Channel V, Asian Music Video and Transnational Gender,” Rock Over the Edge: Transformations of Popular Music, Denise Fuller, Roger Bebee, et al, eds. Durham: Duke University Press, 2002.

“Satellites and Visuality,” Falsche Evidenzen. Visuelle Kultur und Politik der Sichtbarkeit (False Evidences. Visual Culture and the Politics of Visibility). Tom Holert, ed. Cologne: Oktagon, 2000.

“Orbital Viewing: Satellite Technologies and Cultural Practice.” Convergence: The Journal of Research Into New Media Technologies, Winter 2000.

“Bringing Barbarella Down to Earth: ‘Astronauttes’ and Feminine Sexuality in 1960s American Culture,” in Swinging Singles: Rewriting Sexual Identity in the 1960s. Hilary Radner, ed. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999.

“Introduction to Media Audiences and Reception,” The Velvet Light Trap, Fall 1998.

“Special Agent or Monstrosity?: Finding the Feminine in The X-Files,” in Deny All Knowledge: Reading The X-Files. David Lavery, et al., eds. Syracuse University Press, 1996.

“COMSAT,” in The Encyclopedia of Television History, Horace Newcomb, ed., Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997.

Online Publications

“Orbital Viewing: Satellite Technologies and Cultural Practice.” CULT-STUD L,
http://www.cas.usf.edu/communication/rodman/cultstud/columns/ lp-07-11-99.html

“Powder Keg in Santa Barbara: Media, Politics and the Balkans War.” CULT-STUD L,
http://www.cas.usf.edu/communication/rodman/cultstud/columns/lp-15-08-99.html.

Reviews

Mette Bryld and Nina Lykke, Cosmodolphins: Feminist Cultural Studies of Technology, Animals and the Sacred, Zed Books, New York; London: 2000. Convergence: The Journal of Research Into New Media Technologies, Fall 2001.

“Feminist Visions: Give Me That Camera! Playing with Gender in Videos About Girls,” Feminist Collections, Vol. 18, No. 2, Winter 1997.

bell hooks, Reel to Real: Race, Sex and Class at the Movies, New York: Routledge, 1996. Velvet Light Trap: Journal of Television and Film Studies, Spring 1997.

Invited Lectures

“Wireless Culture in Slovenia,” Transcultural Geography Project Meeting, University of Amsterdam, June 23-29, 2003.

“Planet Patrol: Satellite Images, Acts of Knowledge, and Global Security,” Rethinking Global Security Conference, UW-Milwaukee, April 11-12, 2003.

“Satellites, Television and New Media,” Critical Media Studies Seminar at ISH in Ljubljana, Slovenia. March 17-24, 2003.

“To See What We Hear: Mapping Scenes of Mobile Telephony,” Center for Information Technology and Society Lecture Series, UCSB, November 8, 2002.

“Tinkering with Satellites,” Basel Media Arts, Basel, Switzerland, November 4, 2002.

“Orbital Performers and Satellite Translators: Art in the Age of Ionospheric Exchange,” Interventionen Lecture Series, Institut fur Theorie der Gestaltung und Kunst (ITH), Zurich, Switzerland, October 31, 2002.

Panelist on Media Coverage of Conflicts in the Middle East, Student Action Forum for the Middle East Lecture Series, UCSB, May 2002.

“Fighting on Air: CNN and Fox Television Coverage of the War in Afghanistan,” Department of Communication, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, Dec 21, 2001.

Workshop on Television and Internet Convergence, Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis (Ljubljana Graduate School of the Humanities), Slovenia, Dec. 20, 2001.

“Demilitarizing the Airwaves: Oxygen's Coverage of 911 and the War Against Afghanistan,” Gender and Information Technologies Symposium, University of Utrecht, Nov. 22-24, 2001.

“Remote Sensing Cleopatra,” Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Faculty Lecture Series, November 16, 2001, UC Santa Barbara

Panelist, Networks to Nanosystems: Art, Science and Technology in Times of Crisis. UC Digital Arts Research Network, UC Santa Cruz, Nov. 8, 2001.

“De-Militarizing the Image: Witnessing in the Information Age.” Guest Speaker in Global Communication and Culture Seminar. Sponsored by Media, Performance, Identity Research Group, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Nov. 2-4, 2001.

Panelist, “Thinking Through the Catastrophe: Women and War.” Public Forum Sponsored by Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, UCSB, October 22, 2001.

“Satellite Views of Srebrenica: Orbital Approximations of the Other Europe.”
The Other Europe UC Humanities Symposium,” Department of Comparative Literature, UC Irvine, May 3, 2001. Cancelled due to Illness.

“Satellite Translators and Orbital Performers: Art in the Age of Ionospheric Exchange,” Kapelica Art Gallery, Project ATOL, Ljubljana, Slovenia, April 10, 2001.

Panelist, Community Symposium on Reality Television and Globalization, University of Banja Luka, Bosnia, April 3, 2001.

Television Studies Workshop, College of Communication, University of Banja Luka, Bosnia, April 2, 2001.

“Satellites and Citizenship,” Guest Lecture in New Media, New Citizenship Course, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, March 26, 2001.

“Satellites, Images, and Archives,” Suchbilder (Searching Images) Symposium, Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, February 6-8, 2001.

“Moving Media,” Gendering Cyberspace Conference, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, November 24-27, 2000.

“Cyber and Satellite Visualities: Analyzing the Digital Earth,” Global Visual Cultures Conference, November 10-12, 2000, University of Wisconsin-Madison; also presented at Gendering Cyberspace Conference, Odense, Denmark, Nov 24-26, 2000.

“Oyxgen/Hydrogen: Gender and Media Research in the Digital Age” with Constance Penley and Anna Everett, The Women’s Center, UCSB, October 19, 2000; also presented at the Communication Dept. Colloquium, UCSB, Nov. 16, 2000; and Missing Links Research Exchange, Odense, Denmark, Nov 24-27, 2000; University of Utrecht, March 26, 2001.

“Television and Art: The Work of Nam Jun Paik,” Santa Barbara Museum of Art, September 19 & 22, 2000.

“Plotting the Personal: Global Positioning Satellites and Interactive Media.” Digital Dialogues Seminar Series, The Art Center, Pasadena, November 17, 1999; and
Cultural Analysis Colloquium, UC Santa Barbara, February 9, 2000.

“To the Edge of Time: The Cosmic Zoom.” The Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium, UC Santa Cruz, May 5, 1999.

Professional Presentations

“Planet Patrol: Satellite Images, Acts of Knowledge, and Global Security,” International Communication Association Conference, May 23-27, 2003, San Diego

“De-Militarizing the Airwaves: CNN, Fox News, Oxygen and the War in Afghanistan,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Minneapolis, Mar. 6-9, 2003. Respondent to “Transnational Television” panel.

Moderator of “Talking Back with Technology: Activist Practices Two” panels at Race and Digital Space 2.0 Conference, USC, Oct. 10-12, 2002.

Panelist, Organizer’s Session, Beyond Noise Conference, Aug 1-2, 2002.

“Kinetic Screens: Epistemologies of Movement at the Interface.” Paper presented at Society for Cinema Studies Conference. Denver, May 23-26, 2002. Also presented at Interfacing Knowledge Conference, USCB, March 8-10, 2002.

“Talking Television: An Interview with Buffy Writer, Jane Espenson,” Entertainment Value Conference, UCSB, May 3-5, 2002.

“De-Militarizing the Image: Witnessing in the Information Age,” Paper presented at
the American Studies Association Conference, Washington D.C., November 8-11, 2001.

“Redefining the Satellite Footprint: Imparja TV, Nganampa and Aboriginal Australia.” Paper presented at the Society for Cinema Studies Conference, Washington DC, May 24-27, 2001. Panel Chair “Flickers and Flows: Comparative Studies in Global Film and Television Culture.”

Panelist, Workshop on Global Media Pedagogy. Society for Cinema Studies Conference, Washington DC, May 24-27, 2001.

“Translating Technology.” Paper presented at the International Performance Studies Conference, University of Mainz (Germany), March 28-April 1, 2001.

“Satellite Panoramas: Imagining the Otherworldly.” American Studies Association Conference, Detroit, October 12-15, 2000.

Participant, Public Humanities Initiative with John Guillory, UCSB, October 6th, 2000.
“WayPlay: GPS and Web Interfaces,” Demonstration at Digivations Conference, Bacara Resort, Santa Barbara, California, September 24-26, 2000.

“Satellite Sights: Global Space, Cyberspace, Outer Space.” Paper presented at the Crossroads International Cultural Studies Conference. Birmingham, England, June 21-25, 2000.

“Brave New Buffy: Rethinking TV Violence and Sexuality.” Paper presented at the Console-ing Passions Conference. University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, May 11-14, 2000.

“Interflows: Television and Internet Convergence.” Paper presented at the Society for Cinema Studies Conference, Chicago, March 9-12, 2000.

“The Global Reach of Early American Television: Race and Ethnicity in Wide Wide World.” Paper presented at the Fulbright American Studies Conference, University of Canterbury, Christ Church, New Zealand, July 9-11, 1999.

“Plotting the Personal: Global Positioning Satellites and Interactive Media.” Paper presented at the Interactive Frictions Conference, USC, June 4-6, 1999.

“Orbital Media: Theorizing Satellite Technologies.” Paper presented at the International Communications Association Conference, San Francisco, May 1999. Panel Coordinator: “Cultural Studies in the Contact Zone.”

Chair, “Visual Culture and Public Gender Education,” Women Transforming the Public Sphere Conference, April 1999, University of California at Santa Barbara.

“Televisual Hopscotch: Wide Wide World and the Globalization of NBC-TV in the 1950s.” Paper presented at the Society for Cinema Studies Conference, Palm Beach, April 1999.

“AnOther View: Satellite Technologies and Cultural Practice,” Electronic Panel Host, Cultural Turn 2 Conference, University of California-Santa Barbara, February 5-7, 1999.

“Inspecting African Bodies: Television News Coverage and Satellite Imaging of Rwandan Refugees.” Paper co-presented with Jo Ellen Fair at “Communicating Africa” conference, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, October 2, 1998.

“To the Edge of Time: Digital Imaging, Film Narrative, and the Cosmic Zoom.” Paper presented at Five Rivers Festival of Film Conference, University of Montana-Missoula, September 17-20, 1998.

Panel Chair, “Satellite Crossings: Media Beyond Borders.” “Satellite Encounters: Border Anxieties in The Arrival and Contact.” Paper presented at the Society for Cinema Studies Conference, San Diego, April 4-7, 1998.

“Elvis Goes Global: Live via Satellite Aloha from Hawaii.” Paper presented at the Society of Ethnomusicology and International Popular Music Association Conference, Pittsburgh, October 23-25, 1997.

Participant, “Democratizing Global Communications: Evaluating the ‘People’s Communication Charter’ as a Strategic Document,” University of Wisconsin-Madison, Sept. 26-28, 1997.

“Local Dreamtime: Australian Aboriginal Landscapes and Satellite Technology.” Paper presented at the 6th annual Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, August 14-15, 1997; also presented at the Association for Literature and the Environment Conference, Missoula, Montana, July 17-19, 1997.

“Satellite Rhythms: Channel V, Music Video and Transnational Gender.” Paper presented at the Console-ing Passions Conference (Critical Studies of Television, Video and Gender), Montreal, May 1-4, 1997; also to be presented at the 18th Ohio University Film Conference, Nov. 6-8, 1997.

“‘An Electronic Miracle’: Our World, Global Television and National Identity.” Paper presented at the Society for Cinema Studies Conference, May 16-18, 1997, Ottawa, Canada.

“America as Alien: Satellite Television as Immigrant Culture.” Presenter and panel coordinator, “Communicating Nations: Media Culture, National Identity and America,”
American Studies Association Conference, October 18-21, 1996, St. Louis, Missouri.

“Global Media, Vision and Outer Space: A Cultural History of Visual Satellite Communication.” Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium Conference, UW-Green Bay, July 11-12, 1996.

“Cracking Open the Set: The Television Repairman in Industry and at Home.” Paper presented at the Console-ing Passions Conference, Madison, Wisconsin, April 1996.

“Cosmic CD-ROMS: Outer Space, Science Fiction and NASA’s Visual Archives.” Paper presented at the Society for Cinema Studies Conference, Dallas, March 1996.

“Technology in the Twilight: A Cultural History of the First Earth Satellite.” Paper
presented at the Society for the History of Technology Conference, Charlottesville, VA, October 1995.

“Special Agent or Monstrosity?: Finding the Feminine in The X-Files.” Paper presented at the Console-ing Passions Conference, Seattle, April 1995.

“The Fugitive Image: New Technologies and Legal Evidence.” Paper presented at the Visible Evidence Conference (Critical Studies of Documentary Images), USC, Los Angeles, Aug. 1994.

“The Culture of Big Brother and the Video Vigilante: Keeping an Eye on the New Surveillance.” Paper presented at University Film and Video Association Conference, Bozeman, Montana, Aug. 1994.

“Private Secretary in the Public Eye: The Working Girl Sitcoms of the Early 1950s.” Paper presented at the Console-ing Passions Conference, Westward Look Resort, Tuscon, AZ, April 1994.

“Early Television Romance in Bride and Groom and The Continental: Married Women and Spectatorial Identity.” Paper presented at Society for Cinema Studies Conference, New Orleans, Feb. 1993 and at Console-ing Passions, Los Angeles, April 1993.

“A Float Away from the Everyday: Stress, Discipline and the Flotation Tank.” Paper presented at the Theory, Culture and Society Conference, Seven Springs Resort, Pennsylvania, Aug. 1992.

Honors, Awards and Grants

Globalization and Imaging, Research Fellowship with Nicholas Mirzoeff and Wendy Chun, Humanities Research Council, Canberra, Australia, Summer 2004.

Kovacs Essay Award for “Satellite Views of Srebrenica: Televisuality and the Politics of Witnessing,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, 2003.

$170,000 (Euros), “Visual Research on Transcultural Geography,” Collaborative Research with ITH (Zurich) and University of Amsterdam, and Media Art Institute in Cologne, Funded by Federal Foundation for Culture Halle, Germany, 2003-2005

$1,000 UCSB Academic Senate Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award, UCSB, 2002

$5,000 Research Across the Disciplines, Research in Visual Culture and Imaging Technologies, UCSB, 2002-2003

$5,000 UCSB – Academic Senate Research Grant, “To See What We Hear: Mobile Telephony in former Yugoslavia,” 2002-2003

$10,000 UCSB – Humanities and Arts Grant, “Experiments in Satellite Media Arts,” 2002-2003

$4,000, UCHRI Grant, Beyond Noise Conference, August 2002

$3,000, IHC Grant with Nina Fales, Beyond Noise Conference, August 2002

$4,500, Instructional Improvement Grant, War and Media Course, 2002/2003

$3,500, Undergraduate Advising Grant, Spring 2001, UCSB

$5,000 Research Across the Disciplines Grant, UCSB, Oxygen Media Research Project, 2000/2001.

$15,000 Committee on Research, UCSB Oxygen Media Research Project, 2000/2001.

$10,000 Instructional Improvement Grant, UCSB Dept. of Film Studies, 2000/2001

First Place Winner, InReach Indepdendent Web Design Contest, June 2000, $500.00 http://www.inreach.com/inreach/press/webde-win.html

$5,000, Regents Junior Faculty Fellowship, University of California at Santa Barbara, 1999.

$1,000, Independent Research Award, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, University of California at Santa Barbara, 1999.

$50,000, International Research Exchange funded by the Netherlands Research Organization with Constance Penley and Anna Everett. “Gender, Media and Cultural Studies: Finding the Missing Links,” 1999-2002.

$10,000, Instructional Improvement Grant with Anna Everett. Department of Film Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara, 1999-2000.

Senior Seminar with Juliette Williams. “Law and Media Culture.” Sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, University of California at Santa Barbara, 1999-2000. $500

Dissertation Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1997.

NASA/Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium Fellowship, 1995-1997.

Department Teaching Award, Communication Arts Dept., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1995-96.

Society for the History of Technology Travel Award, 1995.

Elizabeth Warner Risser Award (outstanding female graduate student), University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1995.

Ruth McCarty Travel Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1994 & 1997.

Teaching History/University Service

Faculty Affiliate of IGERT PhD Fellowship, MAT, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, NSF Funded, 2003-present

2003 Television Theory Graduate Seminar, USC, School of Cinema and Television

1998-present, Film Studies Department, University of California Santa Barbara.

Courses: Global Media, Digital Theory, Video Art & Activism, Television History, War and Media, Law and Media Culture, Writing for New Media, Independent Studies, Advanced Film Analysis, Women and Film.

2002-2003
Chair, Faculty Search Committee, Film Studies Dept.
Faculty Affiliate, Digital Cultures Project
Faculty Lecturer, STEP, August 2002
Chancellor’s Regents Scholarship Selection Committee
Academic Senate Teaching Award Selection Committee
Committee on Computing, Information Technology and Telecommunication Policy
Committee on Instructional Resources and Library
Sesonske Contest Committee
Faculty Presenter, Chancellor’s Day of Reflection, May 2003
SPUR Grant Award Selection Committee
Organizer, Center for Film, TV & New Media Lecture Series
Selection Committee, Arts and Lectures Regents Fellows 2001-2002
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Dept. of Film Studies, UCSB
Committee on Computing, Information Technology and Telecommunication Policy
Chancellor’s Regents Scholarship Selection Committee
REEL Loud Selection Committee
Sesonske Contest Committee
Paul Lazarus Fellowship Committee
Steering Committee, Interfacing Knowledge: New Paradigms for Computing
in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Conference, March 2002
Steering Committee, Entertainment Value Conference
Organizing Committee, Beyond Noise Conference
Member, Digital Cultures Project
Guest Lecturer, Microcosms, Interdisciplinary Course by Mark Meadows
Faculty Search Committees in Film Studies and Art Studio
Faculty Phonathon to New Students

2000-2001
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Dept. of Film Studies, UCSB
Committee on Computing, Information Technology and Telecommunication Policy
Chancellor’s Regents Scholarship Selection Committee
Advisor to Student Video Collective, Live to Tape
Consultant, Outreach Video Targeting Minority Students, Office of Student Relations, UCSB
Artsbridge Faculty Mentor
Television Studies Archive Project
Gender, Media and Globalization Reading Group
Templeton Lecture Series on Science and Religion
Sesonske Contest Committee
Paul Lazarus Fellowship Committee
Reel Loud Selection Committee
Instructional Media Day Participant
Organizer, Interfacing Knowledge: New Paradigms for Computing
in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Conference
Organizer, Entertainment Value Conference
Participant, Digital Cultures Project

1999-2000
Committee on Computing, Information Technology and Telecommunication Policy
Chancellor’s Regents Scholarship Selection Committee
Instructional Improvement Grant Committee
FS 46B Curriculum Development Committee
Television Studies Archive Project
Gender, Media and Globalization Reading Group

1998-1999
Faculty Search Committee
FS 106 Selection Committee
Idee-Levitan Lecture Series Committee, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center
Instructional Improvement Grant Committee
FS 46B Curriculum Development Committee
Television Studies Archive Project
Gender, Media and Globalization Reading Group

Lecturer 1997-1998, Women’s Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Courses: Gender and Technology, Women and Popular Culture

Curriculum Committee

Teaching Assistant 1992-1998, Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Courses: Advanced Video Production, Introduction to Video Production,
Introduction to Radio, Television and Film, Introduction to Public Speaking

Reader for Television Criticism, Semiotics of Communication
Research Assistant to Professor John Fiske
Vice President, TAA 1996

Academic Activities and Service

Conference Program Committee, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, 2003-2004

Editorial Board, The Velvet Light Trap: Journal of Film and Television Studies, 2002-present

Book manuscript review for Duke University Press, May 2003.

Book manuscript review for New York University Press, March 2003.

Essay manuscript review for Feminist Media Studies, 2002.

Editorial Board, Intensities: Online Journal of Fan Culture, 2000-present

Advisory Board, CULT-STUD listserv, 1999-2003

Member of International Advisory Council, College of Communications, University of Banja Luka (Bosnia), 2001-present.

Reviewed book proposal for Oxford University Press, 2001.

Consultant, Remote Sensing, video produced by Ursula Biemann, Zurich, 2001.

Manuscript Reviewer for the journal Feminist Media Studies (London), 2000/2001.

Committee Member, Kovacs Essay Award Contest, Society for Cinema Studies, 2000/2001.

Manuscript reviewer for Wadsworth Publishers, 2000.

Manuscript reviewer for Houghton-Mifflin, 1999.

Television Studies and New Media Caucus, Society for Cinema Studies, 1999-present.

Editor, 1997-1998, The Velvet Light Trap (Journal of Film and Television Studies). Editorial board member, 1993-1997.

Editorial Assistant, Television and International Feminist Studies, Julie D’Acci, Charlotte Brunsdon and Lynn Spigel, eds., Oxford University Press, 1997.

Assistant Conference Coordinator, Console-ing Passions Conference, April 1996, Madison, Wisconsin.

Co-Curator, Television History Archive Show, Console-ing Passions Conference, 1996.

Judge of Communication Arts Department Speech Contest organized by Professor Stephen Lucas, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1994-97.

Academic Organizations

Society for Cinema and Media Studies
American Studies Association
International Communication Association
International Association for the Study of Popular Music

Community Service

Consultant, Santa Barbara Art Museum High School Intern Video Project, 2002.

Organized campus visit by Drew Rosenberg, Producer of Alex in Wonder, March 2001.

Judge, Short Films, Santa Barbara International Film Festival, 2001.

Judge, Reel Loud, UCSB Student Film Festival, 2000.

Organizer, Chris Carter (The X-Files) visit to UCSB, April 2000 and October 2001.

Organizer, Jane Espenson (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) visit to UCSB, May 2000.

Judge, Short Films, Santa Barbara International Film Festival, 2000.

Organizer, UCSB Participant in Museum of Radio and Television Live Satellite Seminar Series, Fall 1999.

Media Experience & Projects

LOOM, video project produced at SubArt in collaboration with Media Arts Department, University of Achen, Germany in Razanj, Croatia, summer 2003.

Experiments in Satellite Media Arts, video developed at Makrolab in Scotland, June 2002 with Ursula Biemann. Video exhibited as part of Geography and Politics of Mobility show at Generali Art Museum, Vienna, Austria, 2003.

Silver Memories, video art piece about witnessing and the war in Bosnia, 2003.
War and Media course website, Aug 2002.

NPR Interview about Broken Saints website, Jan 2002.

Santa Barbara Magazine, named one of 20 people to watch Dec 2001/Jan 2002.

Co-Developer, WayPlay, GPS web application, 2000.

Personal Website, Spring 2000.
http://www.film-studies.ucsb.edu/faculty/parks/

Video Art and Activism website, Fall 1999.
http://humanitas.ucsb.edu/~parks/courses/flmst190va/f1999/main.html

Host and writer, The Satellite as Witness: Lisa Parks Watches the Bosnian War from Outer Space, Paper Tiger Television, Fall 1998.

Producer and Director of Robert McChesney Takes On Media Globalization, Paper Tiger Television, 1997.

Production Assistant, SKC-TV, Salish and Kootenai Public Television Station, Flathead Indian Reservation, Pablo, Montana, Summer 1997.

Contributor to In Our Backyard, local news program on community radio station,
WORT, 89.9 FM.

Producer and Director of Iris, a 25 minute narrative video about surveillance and gender identity. Fall 1994.

Producer of Girlie Magazine, a 30 minute radio program produced for WORT, featuring news segments, interviews, cultural reviews, social commentaries, music and poetry, 1994 - 1996.

Contributor to Chick Chat, women’s public access television show, WYOU-TV, Madison Public Access Television.

Producer and Editor of Stuffed Animals, a 25 minute documentary video about taxidermists in Wisconsin. Fall 1995.

Assistant Producer & Asst. Director of Spirit, a 30-minute, 16 mm narrative film shot in Madison, WI and Chicago, IL, summer 1994.

Production Assistant and Researcher, WHA-TV, Wisconsin Public Television. Fall 1991 - Spring 92.

 
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