Jennifer Lynn Peterson (PhD, University of Chicago) is a cinema and media historian, educator, and writer living in Los Angeles.

I’m the author of Education in the School of Dreams: Travelogues and Early Nonfiction Film (Duke University Press, 2013). My scholarly articles have been published in Representations, Feminist Media Histories, JCMS – Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, New Review of Film and Television Studies, Camera Obscura, The Moving Image, and Getty Research Journal. I have published chapters in edited anthologies including The Oxford Handbook of Silent Cinema, Ends of Cinema, Hollywood on Location, Rediscovering U.S. Newsfilm, The Routledge Companion to Cinema and Gender, and Learning with the Lights Off: Educational Film in the United States. My film, art, and book reviews have been published in Critical Inquiry, JCMS, Millennium Film Journal, Texte zur Kunst, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Artforum.com, and Contemporary Art Review LA (Carla). I’m a Professor in the Filmmaking Program at the University of Redlands, Los Angeles, where I teach courses on film and media history and analysis. I also serve as Associate Dean of the College of Design and Media Arts. I’m currently completing my second book, Conservation Motion Pictures: Silent-Era Cinema and the Making of Modern Nature, under contract with Columbia University Press.

_{Tinted and toned frames from Soul of the Cypress (Dudley Murphy, 1921). Courtesy Timeline of Historical Film Colors.}