Rate My Professor Carlin Wing

Carlin Wing is Associate Professor of Media Studies and Chair of the Department of Media Studies at Scripps College. She serves as a faculty member in the Intercollegiate Department of Media Studies. Wing earned her AB in Visual and Environmental Studies and Social Anthropology from Harvard University, her MFA in Photography and Media from the California Institute of the Arts, and her PhD in Media, Culture, and Communication from New York University. As the first full-time tenure-track professor of media studies at Scripps College, she joined the faculty in 2016. Her career includes exhibitions of her artistic work nationally and internationally, and she has a background as a professional squash player. Wing integrates her multifaceted practice as an artist, scholar, and educator, with ongoing projects such as Hitting Walls, which encompasses large-format photographs, webgrabs, experimental videos, sound installations, performances, texts, academic presentations, and participatory events. Another project, Ceilings Where I Sleep, consists of photographs of every ceiling under which she has slept since May 2005.