Lisa Cartwright
· ProfessorUniversity of California, San Diego · Visual Arts
Active 1984–2023
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About
Lisa Cartwright is a Professor of Visual Arts and the Director of the Practice Concentration in the Art History, Theory and Criticism PhD Program at UC San Diego. She works across visual culture studies and feminist science and technology studies. She is appointed in Communication and Science Studies and is affiliated with the Design Lab and Critical Gender Studies. Cartwright is an alumnx of the Whitney Independent Study Program and NYU Tisch School of the Arts, and holds a PhD in American Studies from Yale. Her academic career includes faculty and fellowship appointments at the University of Rochester, Ruhr University, Cornell, the University of Chicago, and Brown. Her research and publications focus on visual culture, medicine's visual culture, and moral spectatorship. She is a founding member of the International Association of Visual Culture and the journal Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience. Additionally, she is leading a multiyear research and curatorial project on oceanography in collaboration with Nan Renner of the Birch Aquarium at Scripps, as part of the Getty Foundation's Pacific Standard Time 2024 Art + Science initiative.
Research topics
- Political Science
- Psychology
- Sociology
- History
- Social psychology
- Law
- Immunology
- Medicine
- Biology
- Geography
Selected publications
Antibiotics · 2023 · 11 citations
mutant was highly attenuated in murine sepsis and unable to disseminate from the lungs during pneumonia. This study reinforces the capsule as a key contributor to Ab Lac-4 hypervirulence.
Duke University Press eBooks · 2020 · 7 citations
1st authorCorrespondingDuke University Press eBooks · 2008 · 3 citations
1st authorCorrespondingWhy were theories of affect, intersubjectivity, and object relations bypassed in favor of a Lacanian linguistically oriented psychoanalysis in feminist film theory in the 1980s and 1990s? In Moral Spectatorship, Lisa Cartwright rethinks the politics of spectatorship in film studies. Returning to impasses reached in late-twentieth-century psychoanalytic film theory, she focuses attention on theories of affect and object relations seldom addressed during that period. Cartwright offers a new theory…
Duke University Press eBooks · 2023
Frequent coauthors
- 37 shared
Pawan Kumar Singh
- 36 shared
Michael Szalay
University of California, Irvine
- 36 shared
Siddhartha Dasgupta
The Asiatic Society of Mumbai
- 36 shared
Nina Gupta
New York University
- 36 shared
Kara Keeling
New York University
- 36 shared
Michael Renov
New York University
- 36 shared
Sharmishta Roy
New York University
- 36 shared
Priya Jaikumar
University of Delhi
Labs
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