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 written 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.

L.S.Kim has published a book, MAID FOR TELEVISION: RACE, CLASS, GENDER AND A REPRESENTATIONAL ECONOMY, with Rutgers University Press (2023). https://www.lskim.com/maid-for-television