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. He was also Deputy Director of the International Association for Visual Culture from 2012 to 2016 and organized its first conference in 2012. Mirzoeff holds a BA degree from Oxford University and studied for his PhD at the University of Warwick.
Affiliations
2007–present: Journal of Photography and Culture, Editorial Board Member
2005: Visiting Canterbury Fellow, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
2004–2007: British Film Institute Television Classics, Editorial Board Member
2002–present: Situation Analysis, Editorial Board Member
2002: Visiting Fellow, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown MA
2002: Leverhulme Visiting Professor, University of Nottingham, UK
2001–present: The Journal of Visual Culture, Editorial Board Member
2001: Visiting Fellow, Humanities Research Center, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
2001: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA, Visiting Fellow
2000–2005: Visual Culture Caucus, Founder and Co-President
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
Awards
2006: Steinhardt Challenge Grant
Publications and bibliography
"The Appearance of Black Lives Matter" (Miami: NAME Publications, 2017)
How to See the World (London: Pelican, 2015)
The Right to Look: A Counterhistory of Visuality (Duke University Press, 2011)
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. ISBN 978-0415327596
(as editor) The Visual Culture Reader (London and New York: Routledge, 1998) Second fully revised edition, 2002. ISBN 978-0415252225
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)[2]
References
^Nicholas Mirzoeff biography at NYU Archived 2014-10-15 at the Wayback Machine (Accessed November 1, 2007)
^Nelson, Jennifer L. (1997). "Silent Poetry: Deafness, Sign, and Visual Culture in Modern France (review)". Bulletin of the History of Medicine. 71 (4): 749–750. doi:10.1353/bhm.1997.0161. S2CID 70993804.
External links
Visual Culture in a Time of War, Mirzoeff's former blog
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