Karen A. Ritzenhoff

Karen A. Ritzenhoff is Professor of Communication and affiliated faculty with the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS), Cinema Studies, and Honors programs at Central Connecticut State University, USA.

Ritzenhoff is co-editorof Border Visions (Scarecrow Press, 2013), Selling Sex on Screen (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015), The Apocalypse in Film (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015), The Handmaid’s Tale (Lexington Books, 2019), and Barbenheimer Syndrome (Bloomsbury Academic, 2026). She is also the co-author of Afrofuturism in Black Panther (Lexington Books, 2021).

Her other books include Contemporary Asian Popular Culture (Volumes 1 & 2, 2025), Gender, Power, and Identity in the Films of Stanley Kubrick (2023), Mediated Terrorism in the 21st Century (2021), New Perspectives on the War Film (2019), Humor, Entertainment and Popular Culture During WWI (2015), Heroism and Gender in War Films (2014), and Sex and Sexuality in a Feminist World (2009).