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Lisa Cartwright is a Professor of Visual Arts at the University of California San Diego (UCSD), with additional appointments in the Department of Communication, the graduate Science Studies Program, and an affiliation with the Critical Gender Studies program. She directs the Catalyst Lab, which focuses on interdisciplinary collaboration across art, science, technology, and feminist theory. Her work bridges visual culture studies, feminist science studies, and medical history.
Cartwright holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University (1991), a BFA in Film and Television from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts (1982), and training from the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program (1982). Her research explores intersections of gender, technology, and health, including viral imagery, medical visualization, and disability studies.
Her key publications include Screening the Body: Tracing Medicine’s Visual Culture and Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture (co-authored with Marita Sturken). Recent work addresses African Kaposi’s sarcoma in global AIDS contexts, social media in health activism, and film technology histories.
Cartwright’s Catalyst Lab supports FemTechNet, an international network of feminist scholars and artists. The lab publishes Catalyst: Feminism, Theory and Technoscience, emphasizing feminist approaches to digital media and technoscience.
