Carol Wilder is Professor of Media Studies at The New School in New York, where from 1995-2007 she was Associate Dean and Chair of Media Studies and Film. From 1975-1995 she served on the Communication Studies faculty at San Francisco State University, including as Professor and Chair. She was named Professor Emerita at SFSU in 1996. She has also served on the faculties of Oberlin College and Emerson College.

She is author of a wide range of articles and essays on communication theory, politics and the media, and the rhetoric of the Vietnam/American war. Her film Puttin' on the Dog screened at venues including the National Arts Club, Woods Hole Film Festival, and the International Dog Film Festival in New York and Los Angeles (2006). She received (with John Weakland) the National Communication Association Golden Anniversary Book Award for Rigor & Imagination: Essays from the Legacy of Gregory Bateson(Praeger 1982).

In 2007-2008 she was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at Hanoi University, where she created a Media Lab and lectured throughout Vietnam on media education for the 21st century. Several parts of her work-in-progress Crossing the Street in Hanoi are included on this site.