Nicholas Mirzoeff
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