Penelope Ingram was born in Australia. She is a graduate of Smith College, Yale University, and the University of New South Wales (Australia), where she completed her Ph.D. in English. After earning tenure at Auburn University, she joined the faculty at UT Arlington in 2007, where she teaches courses in critical theory, postcolonial literature, women’s and gender studies, and film studies. She has twice been awarded the College of Liberal Arts Outstanding Teaching Award for Tenured Faculty and was inducted into the Academy of Distinguished Teachers at UT Arlington in 2017. She was a finalist for the Regents of Texas Outstanding Teaching Award in 2018 and 2020.
Ingram works at the intersections of race and gender theory. She is interested in questions of power, representation, and politics. Her current research examines how contemporary film and television shape views about race in the US and have the capacity to affect electoral politics.
Race, Gender, Media, Politics