Lisa Cartwright

Lisa Cartwright is Professor of Visual Arts and Communication and Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego. She is the co-author of the book Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture (Oxford) and author of the books Screening the Body: Tracing Medicine’s Visual Culture (Minnesota) and Moral Spectatorship (Duke). She is at work on three projects about visual technology and affect: a historical study of film and digital humanism in postwar transnational child welfare; viral intersectionality and the hepatitis alphabet’s emergence; and cinematic photography, wind, and power in the US Grain Belt.