Patrice Petro (PhD University of Iowa 1986) has published and edited six books on film, photography, feminist theory, new media and representation. She has written extensively on the history of film theory, and on theories of film history, and is now working on film, international urban culture, and global flows in the early twentieth century. She is President of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) and Director of the Center for International Education on the UWM campus. Her teaching areas include film history, theory, and criticism, modernism, internationalism, and global studies. Along with Gilberto Blasini, she moderates the Milwaukee chapter of the Key Sunday Cinema Club.

Books by Patrice Petro:
Joyless Streets: Women and Melodramatic Representation in Weimar Germany (Princeton University Press, 1989); Fugitive Images: From Photography to Video (Indiana University Press, 1994); Global Cities: Cinema, Architecture, and Urbanism in a Digital Age (with Linda Krause, Rutgers University Press, 2003); Global Currents: Media and Technology Now (with Tasha Oren, Rutgers University Press, 2004); Aftershocks of the New (Rutgers University Press) and Truth Claims by Mark Philip Bradley and Patrice Petro (Rutgers University Press, 2002); Rethinking Global Security (Rutgers University Press, 2006).