Cynthia Chris
(she/her)
University Faculty Leadership Fellow, CUNY Central Office of Faculty Affairs, 2024-25
Professor, Department of Media Culture, College of Staten Island
Dr. Chris’s research interests include media regulation, gender/sexuality, and animal studies. Her most recent books are Cuckoo (2024) and Crab (2021), both of which are volumes in Reaktion Books’ series Animal, and The Indecent Screen: Regulating Television in the 21st Century (Rutgers UP, 2019). She served with Matt Brim as co-editor of WSQ-Women’s Studies Quarterly 2014-16. See https://www.feministpress.org/wsq/, and https://academicworks.cuny.edu/wsq/.
Website
https://www.csi.cuny.edu/campus-directory/cynthia.chris
Education
Ph.D, University of California, San Diego, 2002
MA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1995
BFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1983
Positions
CUNY Faculty Leadership Development Fellow, Office of Faculty Affairs, Central Office, 2024-25
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Cuckoo (London: Reaktion, 2024). https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/cuckoo
Crab (London: Reaktion, 2021). https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/crab
The Indecent Screen (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2019). https://rutgersuniversitypress/the-indecent-screen/9780813594064
Media Authorship (New York: Routledge/AFI Film Readers, 2012. Co-editor with David A. Gerstner. https://www.routledge.com/Media-Authorship/Chris-Gerstner/p/book/9780415699433
Cable Visions: Television Beyond Broadcasting (New York: New York University Press, 2007), Co-editor with Sarah Banet-Weiser and Anthony Freitas. https://nyupress.org/books/9780814799505/
Watching Wildlife. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. Monograph. https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/watching-wildlife
Journal Articles
“Surveying Videoscapes: The Politics of Distribution in Tiered Visual Economies,” Art Journal 74, no. 4 (Winter 2015): 7-20. Co-author with Jason Simon.
“Queasy Questions About Media Violence,” Contexts 12, no. 3 (Summer 2013): 60-61.
“Censoring Purity,” Camera Obscura 79, v. 27, no. 1 (2012): 97-126.
“Can You Repeat That? Patterns of Media Ownership and the ‘Repurposing’ Trend,” Communication Review 9, no.1 (January-March 2006): 63-84.
“All Documentary, All the Time,” Television & New Media 3, no. 1 (January 2002): 7-28.
Chapters in Edited Volumes
“Author,” in Keywords for Media Studies, ed. Laurie Ouellette and Jonathan Gray, 21-23. New York: New York University Press, 2017. https://nyupress.org/books/9781479859610/
“Subjunctive Desires: ‘Becoming Animal’ in Green Porno and Seduce Me,” in Animal Life and the Moving Image, ed. Laura McMahon and Michael Lawrence. London: British Film Institute, 2015. https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9781844579006
“Boys Gone Wild: The Animal and the Abject,” in Animals and the Human Imagination, ed. Aaron Gross and Anne Valley, 152-173. New York: Columbia University Press, April 2012. https://cup.columbia.edu/book/animals-and-the-human-imagination/9780231152976
