• MSW, New York University

• MA, Antioch College

Media historian, critic, curator, and psychotherapist. Research and teaching focusses on the history and theory of documentary film and video; critical writing about film and media; death-denial in a death-centric, mediated world; trauma, collective memory, and history; and media consumption and the body. She has published eight books including a history of '70s video documentaries and is currently writing on the films of Errol Morris. She has also taught at New York University, City College/CUNY, Fordham University, Rutgers University, and Moscow State University; been guest curator for the Hong Kong Arts Centre, Brussels Video Festival, and The Museum of Modern Art, among others; and programmed independent film and video series for public and cable television.

• Death and Media
• Documentary: Its Art and History
• New Directions in Documentary
• Documentary Research Methods
  
• Film Criticism
• History, Memory and  Media
• Media Criticism
• Mediating Consumption, Controlling the Body
• The Artist and Power
  

• Global Documentary
  
• Hybrid Documentary
• Trauma, History and Memory
• Media Consumption and the Body
• Death and Media
  

• The New School University's Distinguished Teaching Award
• John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
• Fulbright Fellowship
• Asian Cultural Council Fellowships
• Cable Ace Award for Best Documentary Series