The Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies
The Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies

Karen Redrobe is the Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Professor of Cinema and Modern Media (https://arth.sas.upenn.edu/people/karen-redrobe). A feminist film theorist, she is the author of Vanishing Women: Magic, Film and Feminism (Duke UP, 2003); Crash: Cinema and the Politics of Speed and Stasis (Duke UP, 2010), and is now completing, Undead: Animation and the Contemporary Art of War. She has co-edited three volumes: Still Moving: Between Cinema and Photography with Jean Ma (2008); On Writing With Photography with Liliane Weissberg (2013); and Deep Mediations: Thinking Space in Cinema and Media Cultures with Jeff Scheible (2021), which won SCMS’s Best Edited Book Award. She is also the editor of Animating Film Theory (2014). As a faculty member, her top priority is to expand access to higher education.