Nicholas Mirzoeff

Phone: 212 998 5725
Email: nm45@nyu.edu

My research is in the general field of visual culture. In the past few years, I have concentrated in four areas

a decolonial genealogy of "visuality," a key term of art for the field, which owes its existence to the practice of Naopleonic-era generals in visualizing a battlefield that they could not see. Visuality imagined the social as war and was opposed to all emancipations and liberations. Visual culture is, therefore, against visuality. My book The Right to Look: A Counterhistory of Visuality is forthcoming with Duke University Press in 2010.
I work on texts for general student use in the field. The second edition of An Introduction to Visual Culture is forthcoming from Routledge in Summer 2009.
I work extensively with contempoary artists, most recently with Carl Pope and Jeremy Deller.
I am beginning a project on the visual culture of climate change in conjunction with the not-for-profit Islands First

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

The Right to Look: A Counter-History of Visuality (in progress)
An Introduction to Visual Culture (London and New York: Routledge, 1999) translations into Italian, Spanish, Korean and Chinese Second fully revised edition, forthcoming 2009
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)
(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)

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