Irene Gustafson is writer and a media maker who works in documentary and essayistic video production, documentary history and theory, queer and sexuality studies.

Her video work has screened nationally and internationally and her writing has appeared in Camera Obscura, Journal of Visual Culture, The Moving Image Journal, and Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier.

She teaches a variety of courses (video production, film/video history and theory) at the University of California, Santa Cruz in the Film and Digital Media Department