Nicholas Mirzoeff

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Dr. Nicholas Mirzoeff is a visual culture theorist and University Professor in the Department of Art and Art Professions 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.

1 Affiliations
2 Awards
3 Publications and bibliography
4 References
5 External links

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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)