Author: Cara Dickason / Northwestern University

Cara Dickason is a Ph.D. candidate in Screen Cultures in the Department of Radio/TV/Film and a Mellon Cluster Fellow in Gender and Sexuality Studies at Northwestern University. Her research examines the intersections of surveillance and spectatorship in girls’ and women’s media, with a focus on the role of television in mediating women’s changing relationship to privacy. She is the current SCMS Graduate Student Organization representative.