Colin Gardner is a British film and media studies theorist living in Santa Barbara, California.

Working at the intersection of film-philosophy, Deleuze and Guattari studies and interdisciplinary media theory, Gardner received his B.A. and M.A. in History from St. John’s College, Cambridge and Ph.D. in Cinema Studies at UCLA before becoming Professor of Critical Theory and Integrative Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he teaches in the Departments of Art, Film & Media Studies, Comparative Literature, and the History of Art and Architecture. Most recently Dr. Gardner has expanded his research into the area of Media Geography (he is currently adjunct faculty in Geography at San Diego State University). He also taught a course on transversality and popular media for the College of Creative Studies in Fall 2013.