L.S. KIM is an Associate Professor in the Department of Film and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research and teaching specialties include: Television history and theory, race and representation, Asian American film and media, feminist criticism, and social change through media culture. She has also taught at Northwestern University, Berkeley, and UCLA on these subjects. She writes about race, class, gender, and genre in publications such as the Routledge Companion to Asian American Media, The Sage Handbook of Television, Flow TV, Journal of Film and Video, and Ms. Magazine. She appears in the film, Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines (2012), and in Uploaded: The Asian American Movement (2012), a documentary about Asian American artists utilizing new media and the Internet. She serves on the Ms. Committee of Scholars, and on the American Film Institute Awards Jury. She graduated from Smith College with a major in Government and a minor in Film, and earned her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at The UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television.

L.S. KIM's new book, Maid for Television: Race, Class, Gender, and a Representational Economy (2023) investigates the cultural significance of the racialized female domestic in American television from 1950 to the present. You can read more about the book here.