Lisa Parks is an Associate Professor in the Department of Film Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. She is the author of Cultures in Orbit: Satellites and the Televisual (forthcoming Duke University Press) and co-editor of Planet TV: A Global Television Reader (NYU, 2002) and Red Noise: Television Studies and Buffy the Vampire Slayer (forthcoming Duke UP). She has also published articles in the journals Screen, Television and New Media, Convergence, Social Identities and Ecumene as well as in several anthologies. She serves on the editorial board of The Velvet Light Trap and the advisory board of CULTSTUD-L and has produced programs for Paper Tiger TV. She is producer of a DVD called Experiments in Satellite Media Arts with Swiss artist Ursula Biemann, and is developing an online gallery called Satellite Crossings. Her new book project "Kinetic Screens" explores how definitions of "motion," "movement "and "mobility" are changing with emerging wireless, computer and satellite interfaces. Parks teaches courses in television theory and history, global media, video art and activism, advanced film analysis, law and media culture, and feminist media theory.