Faculty Fellow
Professor, Department of Media, Culture and Communication, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
Project: Architectures of Memory and Defense: American Empire and Post-9/11 Visual Culture
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. Her current research focuses on the visual culture of empire in post-9/11 American culture, looking at the cultural memory of 9/11 and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in relation to the post-9/11 visuality of security, defense, detention, and drone wars. She is the author of Tangled Memories: The Vietnam War, the AIDS Epidemic, and the Politics of Remembering (1997), and Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture(with Lisa Cartwright, Third Edition forthcoming 2017), and Tourists of History: Memory, Kitsch, and Consumerism From Oklahoma City to Ground Zero (2007). She was the editor of American Quarterly from 2003-2006.