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Lisa Cartwright is a Professor with joint appointments in the Department of Visual Arts and the Department of Communication at the University of California, San Diego. She is also affiliated with the Critical Gender Studies program and serves as the Director of the Catalyst Lab, an initiative that supports collaborations between art, science, and technology with a focus on feminist critical theory and experimental documentary practice. Cartwright's academic training began in film and critical theory at the Whitney Program at NYU Tisch School of the Arts before she earned her PhD in American Studies from Yale University. She was instrumental in launching the Ph.D. Program in Visual Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester. Her research interests encompass visual culture, body studies, feminist science and technology studies, and the intersections of art and medical history. She has authored and edited several significant works, including 'Screening the Body: Tracing Medicine’s Visual Culture' and co-authored 'Looking: Introduction to Visual Culture.' Cartwright's recent essays delve into landscape photography and the impacts of visual cultures on health, particularly focusing on themes such as virality and representation.
University of California, San Diego • La Jolla, California
Joint appointment in the Departments of Visual Arts and Communication, affiliated with Critical Gender Studies, and Director of the Catalyst Lab.
Administered by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Curricular groups include Climate-Ocean-Atmosphere (COAP), Geosciences (GEO), and Ocean Biosciences (OBP).