Cynthia Chris

Associate Professor Cynthia Chris
Center for the Arts (1P) room 224F
Telephone: (718) 982-2557
cynthia.chris [at] csi.cuny.edu

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

Undergraduate Courses: Introduction to Media, Introduction to Communications, Communications Theory, Media Industries, History of Radio & TV, Media & Culture, Media Analysis, Media Regulation, Screen Comedy; Graduate Courses (M.A. in Cinema & Media Studies, CSI): Media History, Cinema & Gender; (Film Studies Program, CUNY Graduate Center): Aesthetics of Film

Cynthia Chris joined the Department of Media Culture in 2004. Her research interests include media history, the regulation of "decency" in film and television, gender and sexuality, media authorship, and animal studies. She is the author of Watching Wildlife (University of Minnesota Press, 2006), a history of nonfiction images of animals in film and television, and co-editor of Cable Visions: Television Beyond Broadcasting (New York University Press, 2007). Dr. Chris has published on contemporary television in Television and New Media, The Communication Review, and Feminist Media Studies, and has presented her work at conferences sponsored by the Center for Twentieth Century Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, International Communication Association, Society for Cinema & Media Studies, Society for Science and Literature, American Studies Association, Console-ing Passions: An International Conference on Television, Video, and Feminism, and Women & the Silent Screen. She has also authored essays and reviews on film, TV, performance, photography and video for Afterimage, exposure, High Performance, Springerin, Texte zur Kunst, Art Lies, Flow, Antenna, and the Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film (2006). She co-edited and co-authored 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).

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