Susan Kerns is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Chicago Feminist Film Festival and an Assistant Professor of Cinema Art and Science at Columbia College Chicago. She is also a filmmaker and author. She is producing the documentary Last of the Lawsonomists, wrote Little Red, and has produced or directed numerous award-winning shorts. Her published writing can be found in Nip/Tuck: Television that Gets Under Your Skin, Comunicazioni Sociali, and the forthcoming Handbook of Contemporary Feminism. She holds a PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.