Jennifer Lynn Peterson is a Professor in the Filmmaking program at Woodbury, where she teaches courses in Cinema and Media Studies. A film historian whose research focuses on the relationship between media and the environment, she is the author of Education in the School of Dreams: Travelogues and Early Nonfiction Film(Duke University Press, 2013). Her scholarly articles have been published in Representations, Feminist Media Histories, JCMS, Camera Obscura, The Moving Image, Getty Research Journal, and in numerous edited book collections. Her film, art, and book reviews have been published in Texte zur Kunst, Millennium Film Journal, Film Quarterly, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and Artforum.com.

Previously a tenured Associate Professor in the Film Studies Program at the University of Colorado Boulder, she has also taught as an adjunct instructor at UC Riverside, UCLA, CalArts, and USC. In the early 2000s she worked as an Oral Historian at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Margaret Herrick Library, and briefly in the Home Entertainment division at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. She is completing her second book, on American motion pictures and nature conservation in the interwar years, which is under contract for publication by Columbia University Press.

Education

PhD, University of Chicago
MA, University of Chicago
BA, University of California, Berkeley