Karen Beckman completed her BA in English at Cambridge University and her Ph.D in English at Princeton University.  Her book, Vanishing Women: Magic, Film and Feminism (Duke UP, 2003), examines the relationship between the elusive female body and the medium of film. She is currently working on a book about car crashes and film, and is co-editing a volume with Jean Y. Ma entitled, Still Moving: Between Cinema and Photography (forthcoming Duke UP). She has published articles on a range of subjects, including feminism and terrorism, death penalty photography, pop art and literature, and the relationship between cinema and contemporary art.  Her ongoing teaching and research interests include theories of gender, sexuality and race, cinema and photography, and the future of inter-disciplinarity.

> Listen to archived recording of Karen Beckman's interview with filmmaker Werner Herzog at Slought Foundation, Thursday, October 25, 2007.