Sturken, Marita 1957-

Marita Sturken is Professor of Culture and Communication and Co-Director of the Visual Culture Program at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, where she teaches courses on cultural studies, popular culture, advertising, and global culture. Before coming to NYU she was an Associate Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California, and worked as a critic in independent film and video. She is author of Tourists of History: Memory, Kitsch, and Consumerism from Oklahoma City to Ground Zero (2007) and Tangled Memories: The Vietnam War, the AIDS Epidemic, and the Politics of Remembering (1997), and Co-Author of Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture (2001).While working as a critic in the 1980s she wrote a series of articles for Afterimage magazine documenting the early history of video art and community video.