Marita Sturken

Marita Sturken

Professor and Chair, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication and Co-Director of the Visual Culture Program, NYU

Marita Sturken is Professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, where she teaches courses in visual culture, cultural memory, and consumerism. She is the author of Tangled Memories: The Vietnam War, the AIDS Epidemic, and the Politics of Remembering (University of California Press, 1997), and Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture (with Lisa Cartwright, Oxford University Press, second edition 2009), and Tourists of History: Memory, Kitsch, and Consumerism From Oklahoma City to Ground Zero (Duke University Press, 2007).

Working Group Affiliation

Women Mobilizing Memory

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