Caren Kaplan is Professor of American Studies at the University of California, Davis and is Affiliated Faculty in Film Studies, Cultural Studies, and Science & Technology Studies.

Professor Kaplan authored Questions of Travel: Postmodern Discourses of Displacement (Duke, 1996) and co-authored and co-edited Introduction to Women’s Studies: Gender in a Transnational World (McGraw-Hill, 2001/2005); Between Woman and Nation: Transnational Feminisms and the State (Duke, 1999); Scattered Hegemonies: Postmodernity and Transnational Feminist Practices (Minnesota, 1994); and two digital multimedia scholarly works, Dead Reckoning and Precision Targets.

This colloquium is presented by Visual and Media Culture, with cosponsorships from the History of Art and Visual Culture, Film & Digital Media, and the Arts Division. For further information and to receive the readings, please contact visualmedia@ucsc.edu.