BRIEF BIO:
Professor Penley's major areas of research interest are film history and theory, feminist theory, cultural studies, contemporary art, and science and technology studies. She is a founding editor of Camera Obscura: Feminism, Media, Cultural Studies. Her most recent work includes NASA/TREK: Popular Science and Sex in America and The Visible Woman: Imaging Technologies, Science and Gender (ed. with Treichler and Cartwright). Her collaborative art projects include "MELROSE SPACE: Primetime Art by the GALA Committee" (www.arts.ucsb.edu/mpart) and "Biospheria: An Environmental Opera," on which she was co-librettist (www.crca.ucsb.edu/biospheria).