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Parks, Lisa
February 2nd, 2007 under Faculty, Uncategorized

Associate Professor of Film Studies and Center for Information Technology and Society Humanities Coordinator, UC Santa Barbara
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Lisa ParksLisa Parks is the author of Cultures in Orbit: Satellites and the Televisual (Duke Univ. Press 2005) and co-editor of Planet TV: A Global Television Studies Reader (NYU Press 2002) and of Red Noise: Television Studies and Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Duke Univ. Press forthcoming). She has published in numerous books and in journals such as Screen, Television and New Media, Convergence: A Journal of New Media Technologies, Ecumene: A Journal of Cultural Geography, and Social Identities. She won a Distinguished Teaching Award at UCSB in 2002 and has taught as a visiting professor in the School of Cinema-TV at USC and at the Institute for Graduate Study in the Humanities in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Parks teaches courses such as global media, television history, television and new media theory, video art and activism, war and media, advanced film analysis, and feminist media criticism. She is also co-producer of Experiments in Satellite Media Arts, a DVD produced with Ursula Biemann at the Makrolab in 2002, and is a co-investigator in several international funded projects including the Missing Links/Oxygen Media Research Project (UCSB-Utrecht) and the Transcultural Geography Project (Zurich-Cologne-Ljubljana). Parks sits on the editorial boards of the Velvet Light Trap e-journal and on the advisory board of the Center for Information Technology and Society at UCSB, where she is also taking on the new role of Humanities Coordinator. She is currently writing a new book called “Mixed Signals: Media Technologies, Geography, and Mobility.”


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