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 in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies. 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, available open access), and Undead: (Inter)(in)animation, Feminisms, and the Art of War (UC Press: Feminist Media Histories Series/Luminosoa, 2025). She co-edited: Still Moving: Between Cinema and Photography with Jean Ma (2008), On Writing With Photography (2013) with Liliane Weissberg, and Deep Mediations: Thinking Space in Cinema and Digital Cultures with Jeff Scheible (U of Minnesota UP, 2021), winner of SCMS’s Best Edited Collection Award. She is also the editor of Animating Film Theory (Duke UP, 2014). She is currently collaborating with Kartik Nair on a coedited open-access volume on the topic of Film, Freedom, and Pedagogy, and she is writing a new small-format book on the cinematic telephone/telephonic cinema for Fordham University Press’s Cutaways series. She is the recipient of the Society of Cinema and Media Studies’ 2025 Distinguished Pedagogy Award. Karen’s scholarship addresses the evolving role of film theory, war and the academy, violence and media, community media, animation, experimental and early cinema, feminism, intermediality, and contemporary art. Since 2019, she has been on the Board of Directors for Scribe Video Center, a media center for social change founded in 1982 by Louis Massiah, and was appointed co-chair of the Scribe board in May 2025.