Nicholas Mirzoeff is a

visual culture Visual culture is the aspect of culture expressed in visual images. Many academic fields study this subject, including cultural studies, art history, critical theory, philosophy, media studies, Deaf Studies, and anthropology. The field of vi ...

theorist and professor in the Department of Media, Culture and Communication at

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. 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. He was also Deputy Director of the International Association for Visual Culture from 2012-2016 and organized its first conference in 2012. Mirzoeff holds a BA degree from

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and studied for his PhD at the

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Affiliations

* 2007–present: Journal of Photography and Culture, Editorial Board Member * 2005: Visiting Canterbury Fellow, University of Canterbury, New Zealand * 2004–2007: British Film Institute Television Classics, Editorial Board Member * 2002–present: Situation Analysis, Editorial Board Member * 2002: Visiting Fellow, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown MA * 2002: Leverhulme Visiting Professor, University of Nottingham, UK * 2001–present: The Journal of Visual Culture, Editorial Board Member * 2001: Visiting Fellow, Humanities Research Center, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia * 2001: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA, Visiting Fellow * 2000–2005: Visual Culture Caucus, Founder and Co-President * 2000–2005:

College Art Association The College Art Association of America (CAA) is the principal organization in the United States for professionals in the visual arts, from students to art historians to emeritus faculty. Founded in 1911, it "promotes these arts and their unders ...

, Board of Directors * 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

Awards

* 2006: Steinhardt Challenge Grant

Publications and bibliography

The Appearance of Black Lives Matter
(Miami: NAME Publications, 2017) * How to See the World (London: Pelican, 2015) * The Right to Look: A Counterhistory of Visuality (Duke University Press, 2011) * 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)

References

External links

Visual Culture in a Time of War, Mirzoeff's former blogNicholas Mirzoeff's website
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