 She holds a joint appointment as a professor in the department of film and media studies and professor in the department of gender studies.Projansky's previous position prior to the University of Utah was the Associate Head of the Department of Media and Cinema Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, where she was also a member of the Academic Senate Executive Committee.Projansky was Co-Chair of the Women's Caucus of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, and she has served as Chair of the Critical and Cultural Studies Division of the National Communication Association.