Sharon Sliwinski is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies and the Centre for Theory and Criticism at the University of Western Ontario. She teaches and writes in the fields of visual culture, psychoanalysis, and critical theory. Her book, Human Rights in Camera, which traces the aesthetic dimensions of human rights discourse, will be out early in 2012. She is currently working on a project tentatively titled Dream Matters, which is about the social and political significance of dream-life.