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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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