Nicholas Mirzoeff

Dr. Nicholas Mirzoeff is a visual culture theorist and professor in the Department of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University.^[1] 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.

Affiliations

• 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
• 2000-2005: Visual Culture Caucus, Founder and Co-President
• 2000-2005: College Art Association, Board of Directors

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, Visiting 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 and bibliography

• 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. 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

1. ^ Nicholas Mirzoeff biography at NYU (Accessed November 1, 2007)

External links

• Visual Culture in a Time of War, Mirzoeff's current blog

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