Nicholas Mirzoeff
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Dr. Nicholas Mirzoeff is a visual culture
theorist and professor in the Department of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University
. He is best known for his work developing the field of visual culture and for his many books and his widely used textbook on the subject.
Visual culture
Visual Culture as an academic subject is a field of study that generally includes some combination of cultural studies, art history, critical theory, philosophy, and anthropology, by focusing on aspects of culture that rely on visual images.- Overview :...
theorist and professor in the Department of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University
New York University
New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
. He is best known for his work developing the field of visual culture and for his many books and his widely used textbook on the subject.
Affiliations
- 2007-- Journal of Photography and Culture, Editorial Board Member
- 2001-Present: The Journal of Visual Culture, Editorial Board Member
- 2002-Present: Situation Analysis, Editorial Board Member
- 2004-2007: British Film Institute Television Classics, Editorial Board Member
- 2000-2005: Visual Culture CaucusVisual Culture CaucusThe Visual Culture Caucus is a membership organization formed to promote and advance the discussion of visual culture in both critical and artistic practice and interdisciplinary contact with those working to similar ends in other visual media. The caucus represents academics and artists in the...
, Founder and Co-President - 2000-2005: College Art AssociationCollege Art AssociationThe College Art Association of America is the principal professional association in the United States for practitioners and scholars of art, art history, and art criticism...
, Board of Directors
Awards
- 2006: Steinhardt Challenge Grant
- 2005: Visiting Canterbury Fellow, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
- 2002: Visiting Fellow, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown MA
- 2002: Leverhulme Visiting Professor, University of Nottingham, UK
- 2001: Visiting Fellow, Humanities Research Center, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
- 2001: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA, Visiting Fellow
- 1996: Postdoctoral Fellow, Humanities Institute, Stony Brook University
- 1994: Huntington Library, Pasadena, CA, Visiting Fellow
- 1993: Yale Center for British Art, Visiting Fellow
- 1992: J. Paul Getty Center, Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Art and the Humanities
- 1991: NEH Postdoctoral Fellow, UCLA Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies
Publications and bibliography
- The Right to Look: A Counter-History of Visuality (in progress)
- Seinfeld: A Critical Study of the Series (British Film Institute, 2007)
- Watching Babylon: the War in Iraq and Global Visual Culture (Routledge, 2005) translated into Italian as Guardare la Guerra (Rome: Meltemi, 2005)
- (as editor) Diaspora and Visual Culture: Representing Africans and Jews (London and New York: Routledge, 2001)
- An Introduction to Visual Culture (London and New York: Routledge, 1999) translations into Italian, Spanish, Korean and Chinese. Second fully revised edition, 2008.
- (as editor) The Visual Culture Reader (London and New York: Routledge, 1998) Second fully revised edition, 2002.
- Bodyscape: Art, Modernity and the Ideal Figure (London and New York: 1995) translated into Korean
- Silent Poetry: deafness, sign and visual culture in modern France (Princeton and London: Princeton University Press, 1995)