Center for the Arts (1P) room 224F
Telephone: (718) 982-2557

PhD: University of California, San Diego; Communication
MA: The School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Art History, Criticism
& Theory
BFA: The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Cynthia Chris joined the Department of Media Culture in 2004. Her first book, a history of nonfiction images of animals in film and television, was published as Watching Wildlife by the University of Minnesota Press in 2006 (http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/C/chris_watching.html). Dr. Chris is also the co-editor of an anthology to be titled Cable Visions: Television Beyond Broadcasting (under contract with New York University Press), and has published articles on contemporary television in Television and New Media, The Communication Review, and Feminist Media Studies. She has presented her work at international conferences sponsored by the Center for Twentieth Century Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, the International Communication Association, the Society for Cinema & Media Studies, the Society for Science and Literature, the American Studies Association, and Console-ing Passions: An International Conference on Television, Video, and Feminism. Dr. Chris has also authored numerous essays and reviews on film, performance, photography and video for Afterimage, exposure, High Performance, Springerin, and Texte zur Kunst, among others, and contributed to the forthcoming Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film. She also acted as a co-editor and co-author for one of the first published works to address the impact of the HIV/AIDS crisis on women, Women, AIDS, and Activism by the ACT UP/NY Women and AIDS Book Group (Boston: South End Press and Toronto: Between the Lines, 1990). Dr. Chris’s current research focuses on the regulation of decency in electronic media, especially television.