Marita Sturken (born 1957) is an American scholar, author, professor, and critic.
Before coming to NYU she was an associate professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California.
She has published essays in Representations, Public Culture, Social Text, Afterimage, Journal of Visual Culture, Memory Studies, International Journal of Communication, American Ethnologist, History and Theory, and Positions, and was the editor of American Quarterly from 2003-2006.
She has a Ph.D. (1992) from the History of Consciousness program at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
She is author of Tourists of History: Memory, Kitsch, and Consumerism from Oklahoma City to Ground Zero (2007),[3] and Tangled Memories: The Vietnam War, the AIDS Epidemic, and the Politics of Remembering (1997), and co-author of Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture (2001; Second Edition, 2009).