Detail from the manuscript “Chants royaux sur la Conception, couronnés au puy de Rouen de 1519 à 1528,” 16th c, Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
The Academic Advisory Committee for the Visual Studies dual-title PhD program consists of Daniel Purdy and Christopher Reed (co-directors), Jonathan Eburne, Elizabeth Mansfield, Matthew Marr, and Willa Silverman.
Visual Studies Faculty
Mary Barnard, Spanish, early modern print and material culture
Claire Bourne, English, early modern book history, typography, book design, and theater
Bettina Brandt, German, surrealism, avant-garde art and theory, feminism, Holocaust film and photography
Krista Brune, Portuguese and Spanish, Luso-Brazilian film and visual arts
Madhuri Desai, Art History, South Asian architecture and urbanism
Sabine Doran, German, film and visual arts
Jonathan Eburne, Comparative Literature, English, and French, Surrealism and Dada
Nergis Ertürk, Comparative Literature, Turkish book arts
Charlotte Eubanks, Comparative Literature, Japanese and Asian Studies, medieval and modern Japanese visual and material culture
Samuel Frederick, German, film, photography, animation
Ekatrina Haskins, Communication Arts and Sciences, visual rhetoric
Debra Hawhee, English and Communication Arts and Sciences, visual rhetoric, sensation, and theories of imagination
Eric Hayot, Comparative Literature and Asian Studies, modernist aesthetic theory, photography, and video games
Bruno Jean-François, French and Francophone Studies
Kobi Kabalek, German and Jewish Studies, film and illustration
Fabienne Kanor, French and Francophone Studies, francophone cinema, Body Studies.
Karen Keifer-Boyd, Art Education and WGSS, feminist art and visual culture
Brian Lennon, English, digital media and software studies
Nancy Locke, Art History, European art 1780-1940 and history of photography
Elizabeth Mansfield, Art History, 18th- & 19th-century European and British art
Matthew Marr, Spanish, film and comics
Marco A. Martínez, Spanish, Latin American and U.S. Latinx photography, film, comics, graphic novels, dance
Daniel Purdy, German, fashion, material culture, architectural theory
Christopher Reed, English, Art History, and WGSS, modernist art and design, relationships of literature and art, Japanism, queer aesthetics
Sarah Rich, Art History, American and French art after 1940
Judith Sierra-Rivera, Spanish, Caribbean and Latinx photography and documentary film
Scott Smith, English and Comparative Literature, medieval manuscripts, comics, and graphic novels
Matt Tierney, English, film and media studies
Adam Thomas, Curator of American Art, Palmer Museum of Art, art and visual culture of the United States
Robin Thomas, Art History, European architecture 1400–1800
Sarah Townsend, Spanish, Latin American film and theater
Maria Truglio, Italian and WGSS, Italian children’s literature, illustrated books, comics
Emeritus Faculty in Visual Studies
William Dewey, Art History, African, African-diasporic, and Oceanic art