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.