Faculty

Nicholas Mirzoeff

Professor of Art and Art Education

Nicholas Mirzoeff

Phone: 212 998 5700
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Director of MA PhD program in Visual Culture in collaboration with the Department of Culture and Communication


Degrees Held

  • BA Honours Oxford University 1980
    Modern History
  • PhD University of Warwick 1990
    Art History and History

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, Visting 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

  • 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
  • (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)

Courses

  • E90.2120 Foundations of Visual Culture
  • E90.2121 Visual and Critical Analysis: Orientalisms
  • E90.2160 Topics in Visual Culture: Watching Catastrophe: 9-11, Iraq, Katrina

Editorial Boards

  • 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

Research Interests

  • Visual Culture
  • Cultural History
  • Disability Studies
  • Contemporary Art and New Media
  • Human Rights