Karen Redrobe (she/her) is the Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Professor and Undergraduate Chair in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies. She has served as Department Chair of History of Art, Director of the Wolf Humanities Center, Advisor to the Arts for the University, Diversity Search Advisor for the Humanities, and Director of the Program in 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, available open access), and she is the editor of Animating Film Theory (Duke UP, 2014, available open access). She has co-edited four volumes: Still Moving: Between Cinema and Photography with Jean Ma (2008), On Writing With Photography with Liliane Weissberg (2013), Deep Mediations: Thinking Space in Cinema and Digital Cultures with Jeff Scheible (2021, winner of SCMS’s Best Edited Collection Award), and  Course Projections: Film, Pedagogy, and Freedom from the Classroom with Kartik Nair (forthcoming UC Press, December 2026). She is writing a new small-format book entitled Telephones (under contract with Fordham University Press’s Cutaways series).

As a faculty member, her top priority is to expand access to higher education. She is the recipient of the Society of Cinema and Media Studies’ 2025 Distinguished Pedagogy Award. 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 as co-chair of the Scribe board in May 2025.

She is a member of graduate groups in Comparative Literature, English, FIGS (Francophone, Italian, and Germanic Studies), and the History of Art, and core faculty in the Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies/The Center for Research in Feminist, Queer and Transgender Studies.

Karen and Jeff Scheible (King’s College, London) are in conversation with Jules O’Dwyer (Cambridge) about Deep Mediations: Thinking Space in Cinema and Media Studies on the New Books Network. Click HERE to listen to this podcast episode. Karen is in conversation with  Alix Beeston (Cardiff University) about Undeadon the New Books Network. Click HERE to listen to this podcast episode.