Nicholas Mirzoeff
Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication; Department Chair
Media, Culture, and Communication
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Nicholas Mirzoeff is Professor and chair of the Department of Media, Culture and Communication.
Among the founders of the interdisciplinary practice of visual culture, he has published a dozen books and many articles.
His book How To See The World was published by Pelican in the UK (2015) and by Basic Books in the US (2016). It has been translated into eleven languages and was a New Scientist Top Ten Book of the Year for 2015.
His book The Right to Look: A Counterhistory of Visuality (2011) won the Anne Friedberg Award for Innovative Scholarship from the Society of Cinema and Media Studies in 2013.
In 2023, he published White Sight: Visual Politics and Practices of Whiteness (MIT Press) and An Introduction to Visual Culture (Third edition, Routledge).
A frequent blogger and writer, his work has appeared in The Nation, Hyperallergic, Frieze, the New York Times, the Guardian, Time and The New Republic.
Selected Publications
- White Sight: VIsual Politics and Practices of Whiteness (MIT Press, 2023)
- The Appearance of Black Lives Matters (NAME Press, 2017).
- How To See The World: An Introduction to Images from Selfies to Self-Portraits, Maps to Movies and More (New York: Basic Books, 2016). Translations: China, Taiwan, Italy, Spain, Czech Republic, Poland.
- How To See The World (London: Pelican, 2015).
- The Right to Look: A Counter-History of Visuality (Duke University Press, 2015)
- An Introduction to Visual Culture (London and New York: Routledge, 1999) translations into Italian, Spanish, Korean and Chinese. Second edition, 2009. Third edition, 2023.