Nicholas Mirzoeff

Dr. Nicholas Mirzoeff is a visual culture theorist and University Professor in the Department of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University. 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)

External links

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