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Hannah Goodwin

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  • Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies
  • Nexus Track Chair for Journalism, Media, and Public Discourse
Hannah Goodwin

Hannah Goodwin teaches classes in film and media studies, including Introduction to Media Studies, History of US Television, and various special topics seminars. Her research bridges film and media studies with science and technology studies.

Goodwin recently published her first book, Stardust: Cinematic Archives at the End of the World, which traces the entangled histories, technologies, and temporalities of cinema and astronomy. This book focuses on the early- to mid-20th century, when Einstein's theories of relativity were gaining traction globally, and identifies the common ways film and new astrophysics seemed to promise temporal mobility in an age of apocalyptic anxieties.

Goodwin has also done interdisciplinary research on social media and censorship in Mongolia, Turkey and Zambia as part of a team of researchers at UC Santa Barbara.

Education

  • Ph.D., M.A., University of California - Santa Barbara
  • B.A., Carleton College

Recent Publications

Baishya, A., Goodwin, H. and Grajeda, T., eds. (2025). Pedagogies of Care in an Age of Anxiety [Special Issue]. Teaching Media: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies Teaching Dossier.

Goodwin, H. (2024). Stardust: Cinematic Archives at the End of the World. University of Minnesota Press.

Goodwin, H. (2022). “Flickering Lights and Mischievous Stars: Uncanny Entanglements in My Twentieth Century." Uncanny Histories. Ed. Patrice Petro. Rutgers University Press. 

Goodwin, H. (2022). “Theorizing Cosmological Archives through Nostalgia for the Light." El cine documental de Patricio Guzmán. Ed. Jaime Céspedes. Peter Lang Press. 

Recent Honors

Goodwin, H. (2025) Invited speaker, "Cinema and Extinction" Symposium at the University of Indiana, February 27–28, 2025

Goodwin worked with colleagues at UC Santa Barbara and UC Berkeley to co-organize a conference on the topic "Mediating Deep Time," addressing the ways media can expose us to and ask us to think through radically long-term perspectives even in a time of climate change, mass extinction, and the “Anthropocene.” The conference is being held this week on the UCSB campus.

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