Biography
Rachel Fabian is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies at Purchase College, SUNY, where she teaches courses in film, television, and media theory and history. Fabian is the former Managing Editor of Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies and also served as the issue editor of the Media Fields Journal special issue “Access/Trespass.” Her areas of research and teaching specialization include feminist film and media history, transnational media activism, and documentary studies. Fabian’s research has been funded by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and the University of California Humanities Research Institute. Her article “Reconsidering the Work of Claire Johnston,” which was awarded the 2016 Graduate Student Essay Prize by the SCMS Women’s Caucus was published in Feminist Media Histories (Summer 2018).