In my current position at Woodbury University in Los Angeles, I teach courses such as Media & the Environment, Directed by Women, Documentary Film, Film History I and II, Media History, Intro to Media Studies, World Cinema, Film Genres, Media Authorship, and more. Starting in fall 2025, I am teaching a 2/1 load and serving in a part-time administrative role as Associate Dean for the School of Media : Culture : Design and the School of Architecture.
Previously, I taught for ten years in the Film Studies Program at the University of Colorado Boulder, where my courses included Film History I and II, Documentary Film, Film Noir, Melodrama, Women and Film, British Cinema, Cinema and Landscape, Cinema and the Historical Avant-Garde, Film Theory, and advanced seminars in Media Historiography and Color in Film.
Before that, I taught as a Visiting Assistant Professor at UC Riverside for two years. I have also taught as an adjunct instructor at the University of Southern California, UCLA, and CalArts.
- Teaching and research interests:
- Cinema and media history
- Environmental cinema and media
- Documentary and nonfiction film, experimental film, classical Hollywood cinema
- Race, gender, and coloniality in media
- Critical theory
- Environmental humanities
- Archival studies
Jennifer Lynn Peterson 