A. BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

Curriculum Vitae
A. BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
1. PERSONAL
Name: Louis Perry Kaplan
Email: [email protected]
Primary Title: Professor of History and Theory of Photography and New Media
University Office Addresses:
(UTM) Department of Visual Studies, 3359 Mississauga Road North, CCT
Building 3059, Mississauga, Ontario L5L 1C6. Office Phone: 905-569-4646.
Webpage: http://www.utm.utoronto.ca/dvs/louis-kaplan
(St. George Campus) Graduate Department of Art, Room 6047, University of
Toronto, 100 St. George Street, Toronto, Canada M5S 3G3.
Other University of Toronto Titles and Affiliations:
Member, Graduate Faculty, Cinema Studies Institute, University of Toronto
Associate Faculty Member, Collaborative Ph.D. Program in Jewish Studies,
University of Toronto
Member, Knowledge Media Design Institute, University of Toronto
Affiliated Faculty Member, Center for the Study of the United States, University
of Toronto
2. DEGREES
Ph.D., Intellectual History Program, Department of History, University of
Chicago, June 1988.
Doctoral Thesis: “Laszlo Moholy-Nagy: Biographical Writings” (391 pages)
Co-Supervisors: Tom Conley (currently, Harvard University) and Harry
Harootunian (emeritus, New York University)
M.A., Intellectual History Program, Department of History, University of
Chicago, August 1982
A.B., Social Studies, Harvard University (magna cum laude), June 1981.
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3. EMPLOYMENT
Teaching and Administrative Appointments
University of Toronto and University of Toronto Mississauga
Professor, Department of Visual Studies (UTM) and Graduate Department of
Art, University of Toronto, July 1, 2015-Present.
Chancellor Jackman Humanities Institute Faculty Research Fellow, Jackman
Humanities Institute, University of Toronto, July 1, 2014 – June 30, 2015.
Professor and Founding Chair, Department of Visual Studies, University of
Toronto Mississauga, July 1, 2010-June 30, 2014. Undergraduate Programs in
Cinema Studies, Art History, Art and Art History (joint with Sheridan Institute),
and Visual Culture and Communication.
Professor, Graduate Department of Art, University of Toronto and Department
of Visual Studies (UTM), July 1, 2010-Present.
Director, Institute of Communication and Culture (ICC), University of Toronto
Mississauga, January 1, 2006-June 30, 2010. Supervised four academic units
(Professional Writing and Communication, Biomedical Communications, Centre
for Visual and Media Culture, and Communication, Culture, and Information
Technology) with direct reports from unit heads as well as one non-academic
Unit (Blackwood Gallery).
Acting Director, Centre for Visual and Media Culture, University of Toronto
Mississauga, July 1, 2007 – December 31, 2007.
Associate Professor, Centre for Visual and Media Culture, Institute of
Communication and Culture (Mississauga campus) and Graduate Department of
Art (St. George campus), University of Toronto, July 2005-June 2010.
Assistant Professor, Centre for Visual and Media Culture, Institute of
Communication and Culture (Mississauga campus) and Graduate Department of
Art (St. George campus), University of Toronto, July 2003-June 2005.
Founding Program Coordinator and Faculty Advisor, Visual Culture and
Communication, Culture, Communication and Information Technology (CCIT)
Program, UTM, July 2003 – June 2006.
Department of Fine Art, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of Toronto
(Erindale College), July 2002-June 2003.
Member, School of Graduate Studies, University of Toronto, July, 2002-Present.
Member, Graduate Faculty, Cinema Studies Institute, University of Toronto,
April 2011- Present.
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Member, Knowledge Media Design Institute, University of Toronto, August
2006-Present.
Associate Faculty Member, Centre for Jewish Studies and Collaborative Doctoral
Program in Jewish Studies, University of Toronto, April 2004-Present.
Southern Illinois University
Assistant Professor of Photography Studies, Department of Cinema and
Photography, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois, August 2000 June 2002 (Tenure-stream position).
Tufts University
Visiting Assistant Professor of Modern Art, Department of Art and Art History,
Tufts University, Medford MA, Fall 1999 - Summer 2000 (Full-time).
Lecturer of Modern Art, Department of Art and Art History, Tufts University, Fall
1998-Summer 1999.
Lecturer of Modern Art and Judaic Studies, Department of Art and Art History and
Dept. of German, Russian, and Asian Languages, Tufts University, Fall 1997Summer 1998.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Modern Art, Department of Art and Art History,
Tufts University, Fall 1996-Summer 1997 (Full-time).
Lecturer of Modern Art, Department of Art and Art History, Tufts University,
Summer 1996.
Lecturer, Program in Judaic Studies, Department of German Language and
Literatures. Tufts University, Spring 1996.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Modern Art, Department of Art History, Tufts
University, Fall 1995 (Full-time).
Other Teaching Appointments
Guest Professor, Höger Institut fur Schöne Kunsten (Advanced Institute for Fine
Arts, HISK), Antwerp, Belgium, November, 2002. Invitation of Professors Johan
Swinnen and Willem Elias. Conducted Studio Critiques with Candidates.
Lecturer, Stanford Berlin Study Center, Berlin, Germany, Spring 1991.
Lecturer, Department of Liberal Arts, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City,
Missouri, Spring and Summer Semesters, 1988.
Lecturer, Department of Liberal Studies. Columbia College, Chicago, IL, Fall,
1987.
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Research Appointments
Chancellor Jackman Research Fellow, Jackman Humanities Institute, University of
Toronto, July 1, 2014-June 30, 2015.
Visiting Scholar, Center for Jewish History, New York, September 2013 – June
2014.
Franz Rosenzweig Post -Doctoral Fellow, Franz Rosenzweig Research Center for
German-Jewish Cultural History and Literature, Hebrew University of
Jerusalem, Israel, October 1993 - August 1995.
Walther Rathenau Post-Doctoral Fellow, History of Modern Science and
Technology, Verbund für Wissenschaftsgeschichte and Technische Universität,
Berlin, Germany, October 1989 - September 1991.
DAAD Post-Doctoral Fellow, Berlin, West Germany, Summer 1989.
4. HONOURS
Dean’s Excellence Award, University of Toronto Mississauga, 2013-2014.
Dean’s Excellence Award, University of Toronto Mississauga, 2012-2013.
Dean’s Excellence Award, University of Toronto Mississauga, 2011-2012.
Dean’s Excellence Award, University of Toronto Mississauga, 2010-2011.
Dean’s Excellence Award, University of Toronto Mississauga, 2009-2010.
Promotion to Full Professor, University of Toronto, July 1, 2010.
Nominated for John Hope Franklin Publication Prize of the American Studies
Association for The Strange Case of William Mumler, Spirit Photographer, 2009.
2008 Award for Magazine Article Design (single), Applied Arts: Canada’s Visual
Communications Magazine for Louis Kaplan, “Laws of Glass” published in Prefix
Photo. Design and Art Director: Underline Studio; Photography: Simon Glass;
Text: Louis Kaplan
Dean’s Excellence Award, University of Toronto Mississauga, 2008-2009.
Dean’s Excellence Award, University of Toronto Mississauga, 2007-2008.
Dean’s Excellence Award, University of Toronto Mississauga, 2006-2007.
Dean’s Excellence Award, University of Toronto Mississauga, 2005-2006.
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Student Development Award, Erindale Part-time University Students (EPUS),
University of Toronto Mississauga, 2003-2004.
Excellence Award, College of Mass Communications and Media Arts, Southern
Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, 2001-2002.
Nominated for James Russell Lowell Prize of the Modern Language Association
for Laszlo Moholy-Nagy: Biographical Writings, 1995.
5. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND ACTIVITIES
A. Memberships
College Art Association (since 1993)
Society for Cinema and Media Studies (since 2014)
American Studies Association (since 2009)
Association of Jewish Studies (since 1995)
Society for Photographic Education (since 2000)
European Society of History of Photography (since 2002)
International Association of Philosophy and Literature (since 2003)
International Association of Word and Image Studies (since 2004)
B. Professional and Curatorial Activities
Co-organizer of Visit and Introduction of Professor Geoffrey Batchen (Victoria
University of Wellington, New Zealand), Jackman Humanities Institute,
Department of Visual Studies, and Department of Art, May 8, 2013.
Organizer of Visit and Introduction of Mike Reiss (Comedy Writer and Producer,
The Simpsons), Department of Visual Studies co-sponsored with Cinema Studies
Institute, April 1, 2013.
Organizer of Visit and Introduction of Professor Ed Dimendberg, Jackman
Humanities Institute co-sponsored with Cinema Studies Institute and
Department of Visual Studies, March 28, 2013.
Co-keynote speaker (with Anthony Wensley), Professional Critique and
Networking Event, March 13, 2013.
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Contributor, Roundtable Discussion on the theme of “Collecting Photographs”
with Heather Diack (Keene State College), Maia Sutnik (AGO), and Thierry
Gervais (Ryerson), and Matthew Brower (U of T) at the University of Toronto Art
Centre, March 2, 2012.
Co-Chair and Co-Convener with Dr. Heather Diack (Keene State College),
“Conceptual Art as Comedic Practice,” College Art Association Annual Meeting,
Los Angeles, California, February 24, 2012.
Moderator and Discussant for Panels on “Conceptualism, Transnationalism, and
Diaspora” and “Place and Space in the Global Village II” at Traffic: Conceptualism
in Canada Conference, University of Toronto, November 26 and 27, 2010.
(Presentations by Tomas, Diack, and Tuer; Cheetham, Whitelaw, Modigliani, and
Leonard).
Chair, “Artistic/Performative Encounters I” Panel, at the “Staging Jewish
Modernity” Conference, University of Toronto, September 20, 2010.
(Presentations by Professors Anna Shternshis and Elizabeth Legge).
Convener of Visit and Moderator of Discussion with Director Guy Maddin,
Screening of My Winnipeg (2007) at MIST, University of Toronto Mississauga,
January 13, 2010.
Chair, “Feeling Together: Publics and Counterpublics” Panel, Feeling
Photography Conference, University of Toronto, October 16, 2009. (Panelists:
John Paul Ricco, Heather Diack, and Sally Booth, respondent: Sharon Sliwinski).
Member, University of Toronto Delegation, DUET, Digital Humanities Exchange,
Jackman Humanities Institute and the Society for the Humanities, Cornell
University, Ithaca, New York, September 13-14, 2009; University of Toronto, May
18-19, 2010, and ongoing.
Co-Chair and Co-Convener with John Paul Ricco, “Jean-Luc Nancy and the
Sense of the Visual,” College Art Association Annual Meeting, Los Angeles,
California, February 25, 2009.
Moderator of Discussion with Kaja Silverman on Photography and The Miracle of
Analogy, University of Toronto Mississauga, October 29, 2008.
Co-Organizer with Hindy Najman and Melissa Shiff of Centre for Jewish Studies
of the Visit of Gideon Ofrat to the University of Toronto, Lecture: “The Concept
of Place in Contemporary Israeli Art,” October 27, 2008.
Organized for Media Generator Speaker Series and Institute of Communication
and Culture, UTM. Guest Speaker: Nina Czegledy (Senior Fellow, KMDI), April
9, 2008.
Co-Organized for Colloquium on Visual Culture (UTSG) and Institute of
Communication and Culture (UTM) Guest Speaker: Prof. Julia Thomas (Notre
Dame), February 26, 2008.
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Chair, “Jews and Visual Culture II: Photography" Panel, Association of Jewish
Studies Annual Conference, Toronto, December 18, 2007 (Panelists: Lisa
Silverman, Lauren Strauss).
Organizer, CCIT Speaker Series, Institute of Communication and Culture, UTM,
2006-2007. Guest Speaker: Chantal Zakari, WebAffairs, School of Museum of Fine
Arts Boston, December 1, 2006.
Consultant for the exhibition Melissa Shiff, ARK, outdoor video sculpture in
celebration of centennial of the Jewish Museum in Prague, September 13, 2006January 2007.
Co-Organizer with Anna Shternshis (Yiddish/German) and Andrea Most
(English/Jewish Studies) of “ReJewvenation: The Futures of Jewish Culture”,
International Conference, University of Toronto, October 28-31, 2005. Keynote
Speakers: Sander Gilman (University of Illinois, Chicago) and Barbara
Kirshenblatt-Gimblett (New York University).
Curator, “Command J: Jewish Laws, Digital Arts”. Selection Committee: Louis
Kaplan, Anna Shternshis and Andrea Most. Works by Jeffrey Shaw, Simon
Glass, Helene Aylon, and Melissa Shiff at XPACE (OCAD Student Union Gallery
in Kensington Market) in conjunction with “ReJewvenation: The Futures of
Jewish Culture” Conference, October 21 – November 20, 2005.
Exhibition Reviews:
1) Nicole Lavigne, “Making It Jew: Mini-Fest Explores Judaism’s Future,” in The
Varsity (University of Toronto), October 27, 2005, p. 4.
(http://www.thevarsity.ca/media/paper285/news/2005/10/27/News/Makin
g.It.Jew.MiniFest.Explores.Judaisms.Future-1036663.shtml)
2) Dan Sieradski, “Command J: Innovative Jewish Art for the 21 Century,” in
Jewschool, November 4, 2005. (http://www.jewschool.com/2005/11/command-jinnovative-jewish-art-for.php)
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3) Kevin Temple “Command Central: Ten Commandments Fuel ReJewvenation”
in NOW Magazine (Toronto), November 10, 2005. (Exhibition Cited with Four
Stars) (http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2005-11-10/art_reviews.php)
4) Paul Zakrzweski, “The Graven Image, ReJewvenated,” The Jewish Week,
November 25, 2005.
(http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=11694&offset
=&B1=1&author=Paul%20Zakrzewski&issuedates=&month=11&day=25&year=
2005&issuedate=20050528&keyword=rejewvenated)
Contributor, Roundtable Discussion, “Jews and the Virtual World.” with Ruth
Ellen Gruber, Shelley Hornstein, and Reesa Greenberg, York University, March
30, 2005.
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Organizer and Moderator, Visual Culture and Communication Speaker Series
with Will Pappenheimer (Digital Media, Pace University, New York), October 25,
2004.
Moderator, “Landscape and Photography Panel,” (Heather Diack, Sarah
Bassnett, Geoffrey James), in conjunction “The Altered Landscape” exhibition,
Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto at Mississauga, October 6, 2004.
Moderator, Lecture by Jody Berland (York University) at the Colloquium for
Visual Culture, University of Toronto Art Centre, April 1, 2004.
Organizer and Moderator, Visual Culture and Communication Speaker Series
with Chris Burnett, Director, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester New York,
November 17, 2003.
Chair, Panel on “Visual Practices” (with Kim Tomczak, Lisa Steele, John
Greyson, and Reesa Greenberg) at “Editing (Out) the Image,” Conference
University of Toronto, November 8 2003.
Chair of Panel featuring Geoffrey Batchen, Klaus Honnef, and Monika Wagner at
European Society for the History of Photography, Maastricht, Netherlands,
November 12, 2002.
Curator and Events Coordinator of Exhibition Distinguishing Jewish: Contemporary
Artists (Stephanie Borns, Zach Feuer, Deborah Kalin, Josh Meyer, Melissa Shiff,
and Jeff Warmouth) Leventhal-Sidman Jewish Community Center, Newton, MA,
Dec. 13, 1999 -February 20, 2000. Reviews: Christine Temin, Boston Globe
(January 26, 2000); Christopher Millis, Boston Phoenix (January 28, 2000).
Curator, Street Fleets: American Snaps, 1950-1970, Photography Exhibition, Slater
Concourse, Tufts University Gallery, Dec. 1996 - Jan. 1997.
Program Coordinator, 1988 Mid-America College Art Association Meeting, Artist
as a Heroic Figure, Kansas City, MO. Guest Speakers: Leon Golub, Jean-Francois
Lyotard, Peter Eisenman, and Dara Birnbaum.
B. ACADEMIC HISTORY
6A. RESEARCH ENDEAVOURS AND AWARDS
Working Group Grant, Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto for
“Humour, Seriously” (co-organizers Matt Cohn, Peter Jones, Jeanne MathieuLessard, and Matthew Risling), July 1 2015-June 30, 2016. $5,000 CAD.
SSHRC Insight Grant “The Imaginary Jewish Homelands of I.N. Steinberg: An
Augmented Reality Project.” Principal Investigator: Melissa Shiff (Sensorium
Research Centre for Digital Art and Technology, York University), Co8
investigator: Louis Kaplan (University of Toronto), Collaborators: Brian
Sutherland (University of Toronto), Henry Duh (University of Tasmania), and
Adam Rovner (University of Denver). Dates: April 1, 2015-March 31, 2020.
Grant Award: $308,499 CAD (inlcuding sub-grants administered at UTM). In
partnership with YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York. Ranked 3 in a
pool of 44 applicants for Research-Creation grants.
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SSHRC Institutional Grant (SIG), “Photography and Humour: Laughter through
Four Lenses,” March 1 2014-March 31, 2015. Grant Award: $500 CAD.
SSHRC Insight Development Grant, “Mapping Ararat: An Imaginary Jewish
Homelands Project,” (Principal Investigator: Melissa Shiff (Centre for Jewish
Studies), Co-Applicant Louis Kaplan, and Collaborator Craig Freeman (Emerson
College, Boston). June 1, 2011-May 31, 2014. Grant Award: $61,043 CAD.
Ranked 2 in its pool of 34 applicants.
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Working Group Grant, Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto for
“Nancy, Agamben, Ranciere: Ethical, Political, and Aesthetic Regimes,” (John
Paul Ricco, Louis Kaplan, Rebecca Comay, Victor Li, and Andy Payne), July 1,
2008-June 30, 2009. $5,000 CAD.
SSHRC Institutional Grant (SIG), Dissemination of Research for The Strange Case
of William Mumler, Spirit Photographer, University of Toronto at Mississauga,
March 2007-March 2010, Grant Award: $889 CAD.
2005 Toronto Arts Council Grant for “Command J: Jewish Laws, Digital Arts,”
Grant Award: $3,500 CAD.
Ontario Arts Council Grant (2005) for “Command J: Jewish Laws, Digital Arts,”
Grant Award: $6,300 CAD
Connaught Grant (2005) for international conference “Rejewvenation: The
Futures of Jewish Culture” co-organizer with Andrea Most and Anna Shternshis.
Grant award: $6,000 CAD.
Jackman Program for the Arts (2005) for “Rejewvenation: The Futures of Jewish
Culture” co-applicant with Andrea Most, Anna Shternshis, Derek Penslar, John
Astington. Grant Award: $23,000 CAD.
SSHRC Institutional Grant (SIG), University of Toronto at Mississauga,
“Command Jewish Laws, Digital Arts,” February 2005-December 2006, Grant
Award: $3,000 CAD.
SSHRC Standard Research Grant, “Photography and Community: American
Exposures,” April 2004-March 2008, Grant Award: $65,020 CAD.
ITST Grant for “Techno-cultures,” co-applicant, Elspeth Brown (Principal
Investigator), January 2004-December 2005, Grant Award: $30,000 CAD.
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SSHRC Institutional Grant (SIG), University of Toronto at Mississauga, January
2004-December 2006, Grant Award: $3,500 CAD.
Connaught Fund Startup Grant, University of Toronto, July 2002-June 2004,
Grant Award: $10,000 CAD.
Nominated by Southern Illinois University as tenure-track representative for the
NEH Summer Stipend 2001 for the proposal The Family of Man and the Global
Rhetoric of Photography.
Summer Research Stipend, ORDA, Southern Illinois University for the proposal
The Family of Man and the Global Rhetoric of Photography at the Museum of Modern
Art in New York, June 2001, $4,000 USD.
6B. OTHER GRANTS
“Media Generator @ UTM,” (Co-Chair of Proposal and Implementation
Committee with Gale Moore). Funding from Office of the Provost’s Student
Experience Fund, University of Toronto. July 2006-June 2010. Grant Awards:
Year I: $50,000 CAD, Year II: $45,000 CAD, Year III: $35,000 CAD.
“Information Preparedness Project,” Member of Committee with Mary Ann
Mavrinac (Chair), Anthony Wensley, and Brian Cantwell-Smith from Provost’s
Student Experience Fund, University of Toronto, September 2006-April 2007.
Grant Award: $16,000 CAD.
Recipient of Teaching Stipend from General Electric Fund for Technological
Enhancement of Culture Communication and Information Technology courses.
Developed website for CCT 201S, Introduction to Visual Culture, Jan. 1 – April
30, 2003. Grant Award: $4,800 CAD.
C. SCHOLARLY AND PROFESSIONAL WORK
PUBLICATIONS
7. Refereed Publications
A. Articles
1. “Mapping Ararat: Augmented Reality, Virtual Tourism and Grand Island’s
Jewish Ghosts,” in C/R: The New Centennial Review, Vol. 13, No. 2 (2013), 239264.
2.
“William H. Mumler,” Biographical Entry, Photography Encyclopaedia, Grove Art
Online, Edited by Tanya Sheehan (Rutgers University). 11 Feb. 2013.
http://www.oxfordartonline.com/subscriber/article/grove/art/T2229348.
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3. “Dybbuks of Derrida: Traces of Deconstruction in Contemporary Jewish Art,” in
Loren Lerner, ed., “Contemporary Art and Religion” special issue of Journal of
Canadian Art History 33:2 (Fall 2012), 171-197. Essay on the influence of
deconstruction and the thought of Jacques Derrida on contemporary Jewish artists
and their works (Frederic Brenner, Simon Glass, and Melissa Shiff).
4.
“Lesson One: Venus in the Light of Visual Culture,” Invited contributor to
Raiford Guins (SUNY, Stony Brook), ed., The Ways of Seeing Issue, Journal of
Visual Culture, August 2012), 46-49.
5.
“An Art of Getting Lost: Mapping Patrick Clancy’s Photo-Scroll 365/360,”
History of Photography, Volume 35, Issue 1 (London: Routledge, February
2011): 6-14.
6. “Photograph/Death Mask: Jean-Luc Nancy’s Recasting of the Photographic
Image” in Louis Kaplan and John Paul Ricco, editors, Regarding Jean-Luc
Nancy, Special Issue of Journal of Visual Culture, Vol. 9, No. 1 (London: Sage
Publishers, April 2010): 45-62.
7.
“Unknowing Susan Sontag’s Regarding: Recutting with Georges Bataille,”
in PMC: Postmodern Culture (The Johns Hopkins University Press), Vol. 19,
No. 2, January 2009/10. Manuscript Length: 11000 words. Webpage:
http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/postmodern_culture/v019/19.2.
kaplan.html
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“Laws of Glass,” Essay on Simon Glass’s The Ten Commandments/Prohibited
Weapons (2005) Prefix Photo 17 (Toronto, Spring 2008), 54-67. Winner of the
2008 Award for Magazine Article Design (single), Applied Arts: Canada’s
Visual Communications Magazine. Design and Art Director: Underline
Studio; Photography: Simon Glass; Text: Louis Kaplan.
9. .“Yahweh Rastafari!: Matisyahu and the Aporias of Hasidic Reggae
Superstardom,” CR: New Centennial Review, Vol. 7, No. 1 (Fall 2007), 15-44.
10. “Dead Troops Salute: Arthur Mole’s Living Photographs,” Cabinet: A
Quarterly of Art and Culture 24 (Winter 2007), 23-26.
11. “The Telephone Paintings: Hanging Up Moholy” in Stuart Bailey and Peter
Bilak, eds., Dot Dot Dot 13 (The Hague, Netherlands, Winter 2006/7), pp. 4753. Reprinted in Dexter Sinister, Portable Document Format (New York and
Berlin: Lukas and Sternberg Press, 2009), 69-78.
12. “Paranoyayla Doğaüstünün Kesişme Noktası: #Hayalet Fotoğrafları Üzerine
Spekülasyonlar,” (“Where the Paranoid Meets the Paranormal: Speculations
on Spirit Photography”) translated into Turkish by Şeyda Öztürk in Cogito
46 (Istanbul, Turkey, Spring 2006), also published on-line at
http://www.ykykultur.com.tr/dergi/?makale=126&id=21
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13. “Beings Between: Tony Oursler’s The Influence Machine as Hauntological
Practice,” in Camerawork: A Journal of Photographic Arts, Volume 33, No. 1
(San Francisco, Spring/Summer 2006), 12-21.
14. “Out of the Picture: Maurice Blanchot and the Refusal of Photography,”
Cabinet Magazine 21 (Spring 2006): 31-33.
15. What is Represented is What is at Stake: Frederic Brenner on jews/america/a
representation” in C/R: The New Centennial Review, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Spring 2004):
95-122.
16. “Where the Paranoid Meets the Paranormal: Speculations on Spirit
Photography,” CAA Art Journal, Vol. 62, no. 3 (Fall 2003): 18-27. Reprinted
in Romeo Grünfelder, ed., Horror Vacui (Berlin, Germany: Green Box Art
Editions, July, 2011), 74-91.
17. “War is Over! If You Want It: John and Yoko’s Media War” Fight Issue,
M/C: Media Culture (on-line journal) Volume 6, Issue 1, 26 February 2003,
http://journal.media-culture.org.au/0302/06-warisover.php
18. ”Photography and the Exposure of Community: Sharing Nan Goldin and
Jean-Luc Nancy,” in Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities, Vol. 6, No. 3,
(Oxford, England: Routledge, December 2001), pp. 9-32.
19. “A Patriotic Mole: A Living Photograph” in C/R: The New Centennial Review,
Vol. 1, No. 1 (Michigan State University Press, Spring 2001): 107-139.
20. "Walter Rathenau's Media Technological Turn as Mediated through W.
Hartenau's 'Die Resurrection Co.,'" New German Critique 62 (Cornell
University, Spring/Summer 1994), pp. 39-62.
21. "Suspense, Para-Science and Laughter," Sub-stance 70/71 (Madison:
University of Wisconsin Press), Fall 1993, pp. 306-314.
22. "The Telephone Paintings: Hanging Up Moholy," Leonardo: Arts Sciences and
Technology (Cambridge, Ma., M.I.T. Press), Vol. 26, No. 2, 1993, pp. 165-168.
23. "Albert Einstein: A Necrological Approach," The Centennial Review, Vol. 35,
No. 4 (Michigan St. University, Fall 1991), pp. 591-606.
24. "John Lennon's Larfter: Treating Araminta Ditch," Modern Fiction Studies
(West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University, Winter 1990), Vol. 36, No. 4, pp.
529-534.
http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/modern_fiction_studies/v036/3
6.4.kaplan.html
25. "Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and the Plague of Plagiarism,” in Yearbook of
Interdisciplinary Studies in the Fine Arts, Vol. I (Athens, Ohio, 1989), pp. 15-35.
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26. “Nationalism,” in Harvard International Review, Vol. 3, No. 7 (April-May
1981), 16-18. http://www.jstor.org/stable/42765222
B. Books and/or Chapters
a. Books
1.
The Strange Case of William Mumler, Spirit Photographer (Minneapolis, MN:
University of Minnesota Press, 2008), 288 pages. Edited casebook featuring
primary source documents and two essays (one historical and one
theoretical) on the life and times of William H. Mumler who discovered the
suspect practice of spirit photography in Boston in the 1860’s and who was
charged with fraud in a celebrated trial in New York in 1869. Essays:
“Introduction: Ghostly Developments,” (1-34) and “Spooked Theories:
Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis and the Specters of Mumler” (211-244).
Nominated for the John Hope Franklin Prize of the American Studies
Association, 2009. Reader: Jennifer Tucker (Wesleyan University).
Selected Reviews:
Notice: New Scholarly Books, Chronicle of Higher Education (December 5,
2008)
http://chronicle.com/cgi-bin/texis/chronicle/search?id=5515CB32188
Reviews: Melissa Slachetka, The Twin Cities Daily Planet (November 17,
2008) http://tcdailyplanet.net/node/16003.
Edie Adelstein, Colorado Springs Independent (November 26, 2008)
http://www.csindy.com/gyrobase/PrintFriendly?oid=oid%3A32781
Angels and Ghosts Ghost Blog (November 2008)
http://ghostphotographs.blogspot.com/2008_11_01_archive.html
http://angelsghosts.com/spirit_photography_william_mumler
Simone Natale, "Quella sensibilità esagerata della lastra": Raggi X e revival
del mesmerismo nella fotografia di fine Ottocento, AFT - Rivista di Storia e
Fotografia, n. 48 (December 2008), pp. 60-61
James Randi Educational Foundation (December 26, 2008)
http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=131495
Chris Richardson, Ghostvillage.com (January 15, 2009)
http://www.ghostvillage.com/library/2009/lib_kaplan.shtml
Tim Train, MC Reviews: Culture and Media Culture (January 31, 2009)
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http://reviews.mediaculture.org.au/modules.php?name=News&file=arti
cle&sid=3124&mode=&order=0&thold=0
Christine Wicker, “Spirited Away by the Camera,” The Globe and Mail
(Toronto) (February 7, 2009), Section F, p. 10
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090206.wbk
mumler07/BNStory/globebooks/home
Excerpt reprinted in “Reviewed Elsewhere” Biography (Spring 2009), Vol.
32 (2), p. 429.
Book News (Portland, Oregon), February 2009
http://www.booknews.com/ref_issues/ref_feb2009/uminn1.html
Interview: “Deconstructing the Ghosts in the Photographic Machine,” in
Rorotoko (February 27, 2009)
http://www.rorotoko.com/index.php/article/louis_kaplan_book_intervi
ew_strange_case_william_mumler_spirit_photographer
Tony Fonseca (Nicholls State University) in Screening the Past (Issue 24,
April 26, 2009) http://www.latrobe.edu.au/screeningthepast/24/strangecase-william-mumler.html
Martha Langford (Art History, Concordia University), “Spirit
Photography on Trial,” in Source: Photographic Review Issue 59: Visual
Records, Summer 2009, Belfast, Northern Ireland, p. 71.
Paulette D. Kilmer (University of Toledo) Journalism History 35.2 (Summer
2009), p. 113.
Susan S. Williams (Vice-Provost and Department of English, Ohio State
University) in Journal of American History (Vol. 96, No. 2), September 2009,
p. 548.
http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/96.2/br_54.html
R. Rob Hardy, “Snap Happy Spirits: The Strange Case of William Mumler,
Spirit Photographer,” The Skeptic (September 2009), 45-46.
Jennifer Green-Lewis (English, George Washington University) in
American Historical Review (December 2009), 1463-1464.
Scott Ury (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) in Religious Studies Review,
Vol. 36, No. 1 (March 2010), 93-94.
Russell Lord (Graduate Student, Art History, CUNY), Review of Louis
Kaplan, The Strange Case of William Mumler, Spirit Photographer and John
Harvey, Photography and Spirit, in Visual Resources, Volume 26, Issue 2
(June 2010), 193-196.
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Anonymous Reviewer, Early Popular Visual Culture, Volume 8, Number 2,
230.
Emily Godbey (Associate Professor, Art and Design, Iowa State
University), The Strange Case of William Mumler, Spirit Photographer in
American Studies Journal (Lawrence, Kansas), Vol. 50: 1/2,
Spring/Summer 2009, 166-167.
http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/american_studies/v050/50.1.g
odbey.html
Beth Saunders (Graduate Student, Art History, CUNY), The Strange Case of
William Mumler, Spirit Photographer, in Photography and Culture, (Berg) Vol.
3, No. 3 (November 2010), 359-361.
Melvyn Lloyd Draper (Graduate Student, History, University of California
Davis), The Strange Case of William Mumler, Spirit Photographer, in Journal of
Historical Biography (University of the Frazer Valley, B.C.), Vol. 8, 119-125.
On-line: http://www.ufv.ca/jhb/
2.
American Exposures: Photography and Community in the Twentieth Century
(Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2005), 275 pages.
Readers: Sally Stein (University of California, Irvine) and Alexander Garcia
Düttmann (Goldsmiths College, London).
Selected Reviews:
Justin Grimm, “The Eye of the Beholder: America Exposed Before the
Lens,” M/C Media and Culture Reviews (April 5, 2006)
http://reviews.media-culture.org.au/article.php?sid=1436
Jan Baetens (University of Leuven, Belgium) “A Disavowed Community,”
History of Photography, Volume 32, Number 2 (Summer 2006), pp. 173-174.
Reference and Research Book News (May 1, 2006)
P.A. Martin (Wright State University), Choice (July 2006).
Matthew Brower (York University), Review of Louis Kaplan, American
Exposures and Martha Langford, Image and Imagination in Revue d’art
canadienne/Canadian Art Review, Vol. XXXI, 1-2 (2006): 103-105.
Eric J. Sandeen (University of Wyoming), Review of Elspeth Brown, The
Corporate Eye and Louis Kaplan, American Exposures in American Studies 47
(Fall/Winter 2006): 3-4
Peter Wollheim (Boise State University), “Jews on View,” in Afterimage,
Volume 34 No. 4 (Jan-Feb 2007), 36-38.
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Mick Gidley (University of Leeds), Journal of American Studies 41: 1
(Cambridge University Press, 2007): 216-217.
Amish Morrell (OISE/University of Toronto), “American Exposures” in The
Art Book, Vol. 14, No. 2 (Blackwell Press, May 2007): 63-64.
Patricia Vettel-Becker (Montana State University, Billings), Review of
Blake Stimson Pivot of the World and Louis Kaplan, American Exposures in
CAA Reviews On-Line, January 15, 2008. 10.3202/caa.reviews.2008.4
http://www.caareviews.org/reviews/1074
Frédéric Grossi, “American Exposures” in Palais/ No. 9 (Palais de Tokyo,
Paris, Summer 2009): 81. (in French)
3.
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy: Biographical Writings (Durham, N.C.: Duke University
Press, 1995), 232 pages. Nominated for James Russell Lowell Prize of the
Modern Language Association for 1995. Readers: Gregory Ulmer
(University of Florida) and Dalia Judovitz (Emory University)
Chinese Edition published with Zhejiang Photographic Press (Hangzhou,
China, January, 2010).
Selected Reviews: Art Journal, Spring, 1996 (by Matthew Simms, Harvard
University); Choice, December, 1995 (by Peter Bunnell, Princeton
University); Ballast Quarterly Review, Fall, 1996 (by Roy R. Behrens);
Afterimage, August/September, 1997 (by Nancy Roth); The American
Historical Review, Feb. 1997 (by Peter Jelavich).
b. Chapters in Books
1. Returning to Scratch: Joshua Neustein’s Erasures and the Movement of
Deconstruction,” in Brad Buckley and John Conomos, eds., Erasure: The
Spectre of Cultural Memory. (Middlesex, UK: Libri Publishing House, 2015),
163-178.
2. “Humor in Art” in Michael Kelly, ed. Encyclopaedia of Aesthetics (Oxford
University Press, 2014). Volume 3, pp. 373-377. Article Length: 3750 words.
3. “Sontag’s Regarding and Bataille’s Unknowing” in Maria Pia Di Bella and
James Elkins, eds. Representations of Pain in Art and Visual Culture in
Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies Series (New York:
Routledge, 2013), 52-63.
4. “John and Yoko’s Media War for Peace” in J. Keri Cronin and Kirsty
Robertson, ed., Imagining Resistance: Visual Culture and Activism in Canada
(Waterloo, Canada: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2011), 55-74.
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5. “Bataille’s Laughter,” in John C. Welchman, ed., Black Sphinx: On the
Comedic in Modern Art (Zurich, Switzerland: J.R.P./Ringier, 2010), 98-125.
6. “Spooked Time: The Temporal Dimensions of Spirit Photography,” in
Baetens, Streitberger, and Van Gelder, eds., Time and Photography (Leuven,
Belgium: Leuven University Press, 2010), 47-65.
7. “Beings Between: Tony Oursler’s The Influence Machine as Hauntological
Practice,” in Johan Swinnen, ed., The Weight of Photography: A Theoretical
Basis for Photographic Humanity (Brussels: UP of Brussels, 2010), 447-466.
8. “Being Exposed: Rethinking Spencer Tunick’s Naked World through the Lens
of Jean-Luc Nancy” in J.J. Long, Andrea Noble, and Ed Welch eds.,
Photography: Theoretical Snapshots (London and New York: Routledge, 2009),
124-145.
9. “Killer Artists: Taking Some Stabs at A Bucket of Blood and Color Me Blood
Red” in Firoza Elavia, ed., Cinematic Folds: the Furling and Unfurling of Images
(Toronto: Pleasure Dome, 2008), 39-52.
10. “Aleph Beat: Wallace Berman Between Photography and Film” in Karen
Beckman and Jean Ma, ed. Still Moving: Between Cinema and Photography
(Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2008), 196-225.
11. “The Detached Hand,” (published in Korean) in Kim Sang Kyu, ed., The
New Vision from Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (Seoul, Korea: Media Wide, 2005), 23-31.
12. “It Will Get a Terrific Laugh: On the Problematic Pleasures and Politics of
Holocaust Humor,” in Jenkins, McPherson, and Shattuc, eds., Hop on Pop:
The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture (Durham, N.C.: Duke University
Press, 2003), pp. 345-358.
13. "Reframing the Self-Criticism: Clement Greenberg's 'Modernist Painting' in
Light of Jewish Identity," in Catherine Soussloff, ed. Jewish Identity in Art
History, (Berkeley, CA.: Univ. of California Press, 1999), pp. 180-199.
14. "On the Border with The Pilgrim: Zigzags across a Chapl(a)in's Signature," in
Scott Michaelsen and David Johnson, eds., Border Theory: The Limits of
Cultural Politics (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1997),
pp. 97-128. Also published in Spanish as “En la Frontera con El Peregrino:
los zigzags en la firma de Chapl(a)in,” in La teoria de la Frontera: las limites de
la politica cultural (Barcelona: Gedisa, 2003).
15. "Foto-Ei," (Extended Version) in Rainer Wick, ed., Das Neue Sehen (Munich:
Klinkhardt and Biermann, 1991), pp. 167-182.
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16. "Foto-Ei," in Jeannine Fiedler, ed., Fotografie am Bauhaus (Berlin: Nishen,
1990). Also in Photography at the Bauhaus (Cambridge, MA.: M.I.T. Press,
1990) and Fotografie et le Bauhaus (Paris: Ed. Carre, 1990), pp. 254-263.
c. Journals – Special Themed Issue
1. Louis Kaplan and John Paul Ricco, co-editors, Regarding Jean-Luc Nancy in
Journal of Visual Culture (London: Sage) April 2010, Vol. 9, No. 1, 135
pp./50,000 words. Including essays by Philip Armstrong, Ian Balfour,
Louis Kaplan, Hagi Keenan, Ginette Michaud, Jean-Luc Nancy, and John
Paul Ricco.
8. Non-Refereed Publications
A. Exhibition Catalogues
1. Reframing Ritual: Post-Modern Jewish Wedding, featuring Melissa Shiff as the
Bride and Louis Kaplan as the Groom, curated by Michaela Hajkova at the
Jewish Museum in Prague, Czech Republic (2006), 36 pages (published in
Czech and English).
2. Command J: Jewish Laws, Digital Arts, curated by Louis Kaplan, Catalogue of
Exhibition at XPACE, Toronto (2005), 12 pages.
3. Distinguishing/Distinguished Jewish: Contemporary Artists, curated by Louis
Kaplan, Catalogue of Exhibition at the Leventhal-Sidman Jewish Community
Center, Newton, Mass (2000), 8 pages.
B. Books
Gumby: The Authorized Biography, with Scott Michaelsen and in harmony with Art
Clokey (New York: Harmony Books, 1986), 160 pages.
C. Books Edited and Introduced
1. Witzenschaftliche Weltbetrachtungen: Das verdammte Universum des Charles Fort
(Berlin, Germany: Verlag Matthias Gatza, 1991), 160 pages. Includes the
essay: “Quasi-Entfuhrung in die Witzenschaft.”
2. The Damned Universe of Charles Fort (New York: Autonomedia Press, 1993), 160
pages. Includes the essays: “Quasi-Introduction to the Humorous Science”
and “Telepathic Technologies.”
3. John Gregory Bourke, Das Buch des Unrats (Franfurt: Eichborn Verlag, 1992)
Bearbeitet und mit einem Essay von Louis Kaplan, 364 pages.
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D. Articles
1. “Photographic Patriotism: Arthur Mole’s Living Photographs,” in Arthur
Mole, Living Photographs (Paris: RVB Books, June 2015), 73-84. Essay also
translated into French by Frédérique Destribats.
2. “We are Continually Exposed to the Flash Bulb of Death”: An
Introductory Meditation on Allen Ginsberg’s Photographic Poetics,” in
Allen Ginsberg Exhibition catalogue (Toronto: University of Toronto Art
Centre, September, 2014), pp. 2-7. Reprinted in catalogue published by
Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver (February, 2015).
3. “Stan Douglas: Introducing Malabar People,” in Makiko Hara and Annabel
Vaughan, eds., TO/FROM BC ELECTRIC RAILWAY: 100 YEARS (Centre
A: The Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art,
October 2012), 36-39.
4. “Dennis Oppenheim and Photography: On Reading Position for Second
Degree Burn” in Christof Migone, ed., WOOD II (Blackwood Gallery,
Mississauga, September 2012), 80-85.
5. “The New Vision of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy,” (in English and in Hebrew
translation) in Aya Lurie, ed., Luma: Modern Photography in the First Half of
the Twentieth Century (Tel Aviv, Israel: Shpilman Institute for
Photography, 2012), 19-23 (Hebrew) 161-166 (English).
6. “Midcentury Studio: Entertaining Stan Douglas’s Photographic Remakes
and Double Takes,” in Melanie O’Brian, ed., Stan Douglas: Entertainment
(Toronto: The Powerplant, 2011), 19-41.
7. “’The Secret Circle of God’s Supernatural Blessing’: Nate Larson’s
Photographic Miracles and the Question of Belief,” in C Magazine,
International Contemporary Art, Issue 106 (June 2010): 34-39.
8. “Figures de la Communauté Américaine: Les Photographies Vivantes de Mole &
Thomas/Formations of American Community: Mole & Thomas’s Living
Photographs,” Palais/ 9 (Palais de Tokyo Museum, Paris, France, Summer
2009): 42-55.
9. “Inventing Obscurities: Samuel Beckett and Contemporary Art,”
Foreword to Seamus Kealy, ed., 18: Beckett (Blackwood Gallery, University
of Toronto at Mississauga, 2006), 8-9.
10. “Mediating Ritual, Rejuvenating the Jewish Wedding,” co-authored with
Melissa Shiff in Reframing Ritual: Postmodern Jewish Wedding (Prague:
Jewish Museum in Prague, 2006), 12-32.
11. “Becoming Photo-Digital, Introducing Pedro Meyer” in Douglas
Cruikshank ed., The Real and the True: The Digital Photography of Pedro
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Meyer (Berkeley, CA: New Riders/Peachpit Press, 2005), 3-17. Translated
into Portuguese and Spanish in O Pincel da Camera (Brasilia: Centro
Cultural Banco do Brasil, 2005); Translated into Polish (Wydawnictwo
Helion, 2006) by Jacek Mikolajczyk as “Pedro Meyer: Droga do fotografii
cyfrowej,” in Prawda I rzaaeczywistosc w fotografii – spis tresci , 25-40.
12. “Appetizer” in Jeff Warmouth, Strictly Kosher Style: Recipes Spiced with
Jewish Humor (Boston: 2000), 2-3 and
http://jeffu.tv/kosher/appetizers.html
13. “J.G. Bourkes Skatalog: Die Uberreste” (published in German) in John
Gregory Bourke, Das Buch des Unrats (Frankfurt: Eichborn Verlag, 1992),
pp. 323-360.
E. Review Articles
1. Louis Kaplan and Jeannine Fiedler, “Photography at the Bauhaus: The World
at a Slant” in The World & I, Vol. 5, No. 7, July 1990 (Washington, D.C.): 188-193.
2. Louis Kaplan and Jeannine Fiedler, “Creating the Photogram,” The World & I,
Vol. 6, No. 3, March 1991 (Washington, D.C.): 172-177.
3. Louis Kaplan and Jeannine Fiedler, “New Look Berlinale,” The World & I, Vol.
6, No. 5, May 1991 (Washington, D.C.): 182-185.
4. Louis Kaplan and Jeannine Fiedler, “That Mondrian Look,” The World & I, Vol.
6, No. 7, July 1991 (Washington, D.C).
5. Louis Kaplan and Jeannine Fiedler, “El Lissitzky: Architect of the AvantGarde,” The World & I, Vol. 6, No. 9, September 1991 (Washington, D.C.): 224-227.
F. Book and Film Reviews
Review of Jacques Derrida, Athens, Still Remains (Fordham, 2010) and Copy
Archive Signature: A Conversation on Photography (Stanford, 2010) for CAA Reviews
(www.caareviews.org). Length: 2500 words (Published: April 14, 2011).
Review of Garry Beitel, The So-called Movie (2010) for Musica Judaica On-Line
Reviews. Length: 1100 words. (Published: January 3, 2011).
http://mjoreviews.org/2011/01/03/the-socalled-movie/#more-592
G. Non-Print Media Productions/Publications
1. Mapping Ararat: An Imaginary Homelands Project (2011-2014). Digital art and
humanities project using augmented reality and virtual cartography to image
and imagine Mordecai Noah’s 1825 plan to make Grand Island, New York into a
Jewish refuge and homeland. Website: http://www.mappingararat.com
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Print and On-line Reviews
1. Chris Cantwell, “Mapping Ararat: A New (to me) Digital Project in the
Study of Religion,” Religion in American Life Blog, May 8, 2015.
http://usreligion.blogspot.ca/2015/05/mapping-ararat-new-to-medigital.html
2. Doug and Polly Smith, “Revisiting Idea of Grand Island Refuge for the
Jews,” Niagara Gazette, May 17, 2014. http://www.niagaragazette.com/opinion/x2117400527/LETTERS-FROM-THE-ISLANDRevisiting-idea-of-Grand-Island-refuge
3. Martyna Starosta, “Eretz Niagara Falls,” On-line Article and Video
Documentary in Forward, May 12, 2014.
http://blogs.forward.com/forward-thinking/198027/eretz-niagara-falls/
4. Raymond Mathews, “Imagined Jewish Homeland in New York,” in
University of Miami News , April 18, 2014.
http://www.miami.edu/index.php/news/releases/imagined_jewish_ho
meland_in_new_york/
5. Sarah Zarrow, “Discover the Promised Land… in Lake Erie,” in Jewniverse,
April 4, 2014. http://thejewniverse.com/2014/discover-the-promisedlandin-lake-erie/
6. Bill Gladstone, “Re-imagining a Jewish Homeland in New York,” in The
Canadian Jewish News, April 3, 2014, p. 50. On-line:
http://www.cjnews.com/arts/re-imagining-jewish-homeland-new-york
7. David S. Green, “This day in Jewish history/A Refuge for persecuted Jews
is founded – almost,” Ha’aretz, Sept. 15, 2013.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/features/this-day-in-jewishhistory/.premium-1.547025
8. “Augmented Reality of a Lost Jewish Land: Mapping Ararat”, in Jewish
Art Now, June 10, 2013.
http://www.jewishartnow.com/2013/06/10/mapping-ararat/
9. Stephen Strauss, “Virtual Homeland: Imagining the Jewish state that
never was in Grand Island, New York,” The Walrus Vol. 10, No. 6
(July/August 2013): 23-25. http://thewalrus.ca/virtual-homeland/
10. “An Imaginary Jewish Homeland,” in Imaginary Atlas, May 13, 2013,
http://www.imaginaryatlas.com/2013/05/13/an-imaginary-jewishhomeland/
11. Jonny Hankins, “Augmented Reality Art,” in Technology Bloggers, May 13,
2013. http://www.technologybloggers.org/media/augmented-realityart/
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12. Renee Ghert-Zhand, “A Jewish ‘Refuge,’ Virtually Recreated,” in Forward
On-line (The Arty Semite), April 25, 2012.
http://blogs.forward.com/the-arty-semite/155299/a-jewish-refugevirtually-recreated/
13. Sarah Kamaris, “Jewish Scholarship and Technology ‘Join Hands’,” in
Joint Media News Service, Online at:
http://jns.citysoft.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Feature.showFeature&Cate
goryID=6&FeatureID=156
Academic Papers and Publications on or referring to Mapping Ararat
1. Laurence Roth, “Networks,” in Nadia Valman and Laurence Roth, eds., The
Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Jewish Cultures (New York: Routledge, 2015),
p. 206.
2. Adam L. Rovner, In the Shadows of Zion: Promised Lands Before Israel (New York:
New York University Press, 2014), pp. 225-226.
3. Heidi Rae Cooley and Duncan A. Buell, “Ghosts of the Horseshoe, A Mobile
Application,” in Samantha Hastings, ed., Annual Review of Cultural Informatics
2012-2013 (Lanham, MD: Rowan and Littlefield, 2014), pp. 207-208.
4. Marie-Laure Ryan, Section on Mapping Ararat in keynote lecture “Transmedia
Storytelling: Myth or Reality?” at “Rethinking Intermediality in the Digital Age”
organized by the International Society for Intermedia Studies (ISIS), Sapientia
Hungarian University of Transylvania, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, October 24-26,
2013. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqFsg8zqcLA
5. Carol Zemel (York University), “In the Mosaic: Jewish Identities in Canadian
Performance and Installation Art,” in Canadian Theatre Review 153 (Winter 2013).
6. Shelley Hornstein (York University), “Augments & Ararat: Architecture,
mobility and homeland”2013 European Architectural History Network (EAHN)
Conference: Architectural Electives Affinities: Transfers, Correspondences,
Inter/multidisciplinarity, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, March 2013.
7. Shelley Hornstein (York University), “Ararat: Mobility and Reverse Diaspora
in the Sentient City,” on “Augmented Reality and Cultural Heritage” Panel at
The 9 Jerusalem Conference on the Digitisation of Cultural Heritage, Van Leer
Jerusalem Institute, Jerusalem, Israel, November 13, 2012.
http://www.digital-heritage.org.il/Program2012.html
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2. Postmodern Jewish Wedding (2006). Directed by Melissa Shiff, Co-Created and
Starring Louis Kaplan as the Groom and Melissa Shiff as the Bride, Video, 23
minutes.
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Scholarly Reviews:
a. Evelyn Tauben, “Mi Yimtza? Finding Jewish Identity Through Women’s
Autobiographical Art,” in Sarah Lightman, Graphic Details: Jewish Women’s
Confessional Comics in Essays and Interviews (Jefferson, NC: Mc Farland
Publishing, 2014).
b. Belarie Zatzman and Laura Levin, “Jewish Performance in Canada” in Special
Issue on Jewish Theatre in Canadian Theatre Review 153 (University of Toronto
Press, Winter 2013): 5. (Includes discussion and four video clips).
c. Raz Samira, With This Ring: Jewish Wedding Ceremonies in Contemporary Art”
(Tel Aviv, Israel: Beit Hatfutsot, 2011) p. 59.
d. Ori Z. Soltes, “Memory, Questions, and Definitions: Images of Old and New
Rites of Passage,” in Leonard Greenspoon (Creighton University) ed., Rites of
Passage: How Today’s Jews Celebrate, Commemorate, and Commiserate (Lafayette,
Indiana: Purdue University Press, 2010), pp. 103-106.
e. Jeffrey Shandler, Jews, God, and Videotape: Religion and Media in America (New
York: New York University Press, 2009), pp. 172-174.
f. Susan Chevlowe, “Meetings of Past and Present: The Installations of
Multimedia Artists Hana Iverson and Melissa Shiff,” Nashim: A Journal of Jewish
Women’s Studies and Gender Issues (No. 14, Fall 2007): 30-62.
3. Looking for Ararat, An Imaginary Jewish Homelands Project (2004). CoProduced by Louis Kaplan and Melissa Shiff. Technical Support by Steve Jank
and Greg Goralski. Web-based Project. http://www.mosaica.ca/ararat.
4. Avant-Garde Jewish Wedding (2004). Directed by Melissa Shiff, Written and
Created by Melissa Shiff and Louis Kaplan. Video 7 minutes.
5. Avant-Garde Jewish Wedding. Artist Project Online Module at Barbara
Kirshenblatt and Jeffrey Shandler (editors), Modiya: Jewish/Media/Religion
(Website, New York University):
http://modiya.nyu.edu/modiya/handle/1964/799
6. Chuppah in the Sukkah, Co-director and co-writer with Melissa Shiff of multimedia performance art project utilizing text, music, and video projection, The
Fermenting Room, Distillery District, Toronto, October 12, 2003.
7. Looking for Ararat (2003). Video 8 minutes. Directed by Melissa Shiff.
Conceptualized by Melissa Shiff and Louis Kaplan. Starring Louis Kaplan.
8. L’Chaim, Las Vegas: On Frederic Brenner’s jews/america/a representation (2002/3),
Video, 39 minutes. Co-Directed by Louis Kaplan and Melissa Shiff.
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9. Manuscripts/Publications in Preparation
A. Essays in Press
1. “Art by Telephone: Of Telecommunication Aesthetics and Prank Callers,”
in Ursula Frohne and Anne Thurman-Jajes, eds., Art In-Formation
(Lebanon, New Hampshire: Dartmouth College Press/University of New
England Press, 2016). In “Interfaces: Studies in Visual Culture Series,”
Manuscript Submitted: June 17, 2008. Manuscript Length: 5000 words.
2. “Houdini Ghostbuster: An Episode in the History of Spirit Photographic
Doubt“ in Sabine Kriebel and Andres Zervigon, eds., Photography in Doubt
(Routledge), 6000 words essay and 6 illustrations. Manuscript Submitted:
June 30, 2015. Final Manuscript Due: October 1, 2015.
B. Works in Progress
Book Manuscripts
1. Photography and Humour. For Exposures Book series edited by Mark
Haworth-Booth (Victoria and Albert Museum) and Peter Hamilton (Open
University) (London: Reaktion Books, 2016). Projected length: 42,000
words and ca. 100 illustrations. Book Proposal Accepted; Under Contract.
Manuscript Submitted: August 1, 2015. Permission Due: November 2015
2. At Wit’s End: Jewish Jokes, Anti-Semitism, and the Jewish Question from
Weimar Germany to the Holocaust. Completed Manuscript. Length: 105,000
words.
3. Mapping Ararat: Augmented Reality and the Design of an Imaginary Jewish
Homeland (in collaboration with Melissa Shiff and John Craig Freeman).
Jeffrey Schnapp, editor, MetaLABprojects Series, Harvard University
Press. Length: 40,000 words. Book Manuscript Due – Spring 2016.
Articles
4. “Mapping Ararat: An Augmented Reality Walking Tour for an Imaginary
Jewish Homeland” (with Melissa Shiff) in special issue of Anthro-Vision on
the “Mining Imagination” workshop at the Harvard Humanities Center
edited by Michaela Schaeuble (Berne). Manuscript Submitted: November
15, 2014. Projected date of publication: December 2015). Essay Length:
6000 words plus digital media clips.
5.
“American Photographic Indicators: Addressing the Photo-Political State
of a Contested Union (1991-Present)” in Gil Pasternak, ed., Handbook of
Photography Studies (Bloomsbury, 2017). Abstract Accepted – March 2015.
Manuscript – 8,000 words. Due: October 30, 2015.
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6. “Did you hear the one about Žižek and the Aristocrats?: Thinking
Through an Abject Joke and its Perverse Retelling,” in Nic Sammond and
Maggie Hennefeld, eds., The Abject Objection: Essays on the Abject, the
Comic, and Ordinary Resistance in the Vernacular Arts; Abstract Accepted:
Sept. 1, 2014; Manuscript Submission: July 15, 2015. Manuscript – 9500
words.
C. Completed but not yet Published
1. “Indexing Virtuality: On Jeffrey Shaw’s The Golden Calf” (2005) (10 pages)
2. “The Body Artist’s Webcam,” (2003) (10 pages)
3. “Recycling Moholy: Braco Dimitrijevic's Trip” (1996) (28 pages)
4. "Flux Humor: Fluxus Art and its Laughter" (1995) (30 pages).
5. “Martin Heidegger and Fairy Tales” (1988) (16 pages)
10. Papers Presented at Conferences and Symposia
1. “Mapping Ararat and Beyond: Augmented Reality Walking Tours for
Imagined Jewish Homelands,” Invited by Prof. Victoria Szabo (Duke
University), on "Digital Cultural Heritage as Public Humanities
Collaboration,” College Art Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.,
February 4, 2016. (Forthcoming).
2. “Houdini Ghostbuster: An Episode in the History of Spirit Photographic
Doubt“ on Photography and the Occult panel with Jeremy Stolow, Lucy
Traverse, and Anthony Enns, Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual
Meeting, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, March 29, 2015.
3. Mapping Ararat: An Imaginary Jewish Homelands Project, Performance/Analysis
Presentation by Louis Kaplan and Melissa Shiff and Roundtable Discussion
with Professors Shelley Hornstein, Jeffrey Shandler, Todd Presner, and
Jennifer Glaser at the Association for Jewish Studies Annual Meeting, Boston,
MA, December 16, 2013.
4. “Ararat’s Augmented World: Screen Plays for a Mobile Homeland” Panel on
Mapping Ararat at HASTAC 2013, York University, Toronto, April 28, 2013.
(with Melissa Shiff, Shelley Hornstein, and Janine Marchessault (chair).
5.
“Mapping Ararat: Research/Creation on the Border of the Historical and the
Imaginary,” (with Melissa Shiff), Special Session Leader, Ontario Augmented
Reality Network Conference, Toronto Reference Library, October 5, 2012.
6. “William Klein’s New York and the Question of Community,” on the Panel
“New New York: Revisionist Histories of the City in Documentary,” at
Visible Evidence 18, New York University, New York, August 12, 2011.
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7. “Returning to Scratch: Joshua Neustein’s Erasures and the Movement of
Deconstruction,” on the Panel “The Erasure of Contemporary Memory,”
College Art Association Annual Meeting, New York, February 12, 2011.
8. “Radio Kabbalah: Wallace Berman and the Question of Reception,”
Association of Jewish Studies, Los Angeles, California, December 22, 2009.
9. “Return of the Dead: The Spirit Photographs of William Mumler and the
Work of Mourning,” at the Iconography of Death Conference, McMaster
University, Hamilton, Canada, October 24, 2008.
10. “Matisyahu and the Paradoxical Performance of Hasidic Reggae
Superstardom,” Association of Jewish Studies, Toronto, Canada, December
16, 2007.
11. “Kabbalah Surrealism,” University of Toronto Modern/Contemporary Art
Research Group, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, March 21, 2006.
12. ”Kabbalah Surrealism: Wallace Berman’s Seminal Sixties,” College Art
Association Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, February 25, 2006.
13. ”Laws of Glass,” on Panel “Addressing Command J: Jewish Laws, Digital Arts”
at ReJewvenation: The Futures of Jewish Culture Conference (with Norman
Kleeblatt, Carol Zemel, Dot Tuer, and Jessica Wyman), University of Toronto,
October 30, 2005.
14. “Aleph: Wallace Berman Between Photography and Film” on “Cinema and
Photography: Time, Space, Theory” Panel (Karen Beckman) at “Elective
Affinities,” Intl. Association of Word and Image Studies, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, September 27, 2005.
15. “Indexing Virtuality: On Jeffrey Shaw’s Golden Calf,” Congress CATH 2005
“Ethics and Politics of Virtuality and Indexicality,” University of Leeds,
England, July 2, 2005.
16. “The Fortuitous Encounter of Kabbalah and Surrealism: On Wallace Berman’s
Verifax Photo-Collages”, at Collage as Cultural Practice Conference,
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, March 25, 2005.
17. “Hands of Chance: On Wallace Berman’s Radio/Ether Series,” at Gambling
Theory Conference, University of Western Ontario, London, October 16, 2004.
18. “Exposing Being-in-Common: Photography and Community through the
Lens of Jean-Luc Nancy,” International Association of Philosophy and
Literature, Syracuse, New York, May 21, 2004.
19. “Reading Sontag on Bataille: Questions of Ecstasy” presented at the
workshop on “The Photographic Representation of Suffering,” organized by
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Centre for Visual and Media Culture, UTM, and Centre for Media and
Culture in Education, OISE, at UT Mississauga, April 2, 2004.
20. “Community Exposed Photography: Theorizing Photography and
Community via Jean-Luc Nancy,” Theory Panel, The Photograph Conference,
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, March 12, 2004.
21. “’We Don’t Know’: Archibald MacLeish’s Land of the Free and the Question of
American Community”, Communities Conference, University of Leeds,
England, September 18, 2003.
22. “The Body Artist’s Webcam,” on the panel “Trans-optics: Webcam
Network/Artwork Vision (Will Pappenheimer, chair), College Art
Association Annual Meeting, New York, New York, February 20, 2003.
23. “Digital Chicanos: Pedro Meyer’s Truths and Fictions,” at Symposium “Traces,
Flashes, Visions: Latin American and Mexican Photography,” Center for
Advanced Study, Birkbeck College, University of London, England, June 6,
2002.
24. “Living Photographs: Arthur Mole’s Figurations of American Sovereignty,”
at Theorems of Power: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Sovereignty and
Visuality, New York University, April 13, 2002.
25. “L’Chaim, Las Vegas: On Frederic Brenner’s jews/america/a representation “
(Video Lecture) at 39 Annual Society for Photographic Education Annual
Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, March 23, 2002.
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26. “Performances of Community: Nikki S. Lee’s Rites of Passing,” Literature
and Democracy Conference, Emory University, Atlanta Georgia, February 22,
2002.
27. “Photo Globe: The Global Rhetoric of Edward Steichen’s Family of Man,”
Midwest Society for Photographic Education Regional Meeting, Southern
Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, November 16, 2001.
28. “The Family of Man and the Global Rhetoric of Photography,” at the
“Globalicities” Conference, Michigan State University, East Lansing,
Michigan, October 19, 2001.
29. “Where the Paranoid Meets the Paranormal: Reflections on Spirit
Photography,” for the panel “The Bored and the Paranoid: Two Tendencies of
the Photograph” (Carol Mavor, chair), CAA Annual Meeting, Chicago
Illinois, March 2, 2001.
30. “A Patriotic Mole: A Living Photograph,” Society for Photographic
Education Midwest Regional Meeting, Detroit, Michigan, November 10, 2000.
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31. “Living Insignia: Photo-cultural Formations of Citizenship (The Case of
Arthur Mole)” at Cultural Citizenship Conference, Michigan St. University,
October 22, 1999.
32. “Killer Artists: Corman, Lewis, and B-Movie Expressionism,” Violence in
Film and Literature Conference, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL,
January 30, 1999.
33. "Slashing Towards Diaspora: On Frederic Brenner's jews/america/a
representation” Border Subjects: (Dis)locations of Culture Conference, Illinois
State University, Bloomington, IL, October 9, 1998.
34. "War Is Over, If You Want It!: John and Yoko's Media War," War and Cultural
Representation Panel, CAA Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, February 28,
1998.
35. "Reframing the Self-Criticism: Clement Greenberg's 'Modernist Painting' in
Light of Jewish Identity", Panel on "Jewish Identity in Art History" (Cathy
Soussloff, Chair), CAA Annual Meeting, Boston, MA., February 21, 1996.
36. "Suspended Sentences: Laugh Tracking Two Para-Scientific Histories," Intl.
Conference on Epistemocritique et Cognition, Centre Culturel Canadien,
Paris, France, March 20, 1992.
37. "Sigmund Freud and Skeptical Jokes," International Conference on Rhetoric,
Tel Aviv University, Israel, June 20, 1991.
38. "Chapl(a)in's The Pilgrim," Film Section, International Word and Image
Conference, Zurich, Switzerland, August 28, 1990.
39. "Fort Dataist," Science and Modernity Conference, Verbund fuer
Wissenschaftsgeschichte Summer Academy, Berlin, Germany, July 18, 1990.
40. "Foto-Ei," Bauhaus Symposium, Bergische Universitat, Wuppertal, Germany,
October 4, 1989.
41. “The Fairy Tale Heidegger: Martin in Wonderland” Midwest Modern
Language Association Annual Meeting, St. Louis, Missouri, November 1,
1988.
42. "Dismembering Hear O Van Gogh: Half-Listening to Bataille and Artaud,"
Artist as Hero Conference, Mid-America College Art Association Annual
Meeting, Kansas City, Missouri, October 27, 1988.
43. “JOHN CAGE: The Ghost Sutra,” an interpretive talk with Patrick Clancy,
Kansas City Art Institute, April 1988. (Videotape Document)
44. "Ho/Joy: Moholy/Joyce," Joyce in Milwaukee Conference, Marquette
University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, June 13, 1987.
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45. "Gumby Bookworm," Literature and the Other Arts Section, Fourteenth
Annual 20th Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, KY,
February 27, 1986.
11. Invited Lectures and Screenings
A. Invited Lectures and Presentations
1. “Lecture on Photography and Humour,” Invited Speaker, “Interdisciplinary
Studies in Humor” Conference, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,
April 8-9, 2016 (Forthcoming).
2. “A Morbid Sense of Humour: Photography’s Dark Comedy”, Keynote
Speaker, “Photography Performing Humour” Conference, LUCA, Brussels,
Belgium, November 24-25, 2015 (Forthcoming).
3. “American Exposures: A Methodological Review,” Graduate Seminar,
University of Leuven, Belgium, November 23, 2015. (Forthcoming).
4. “Mapping Ararat: Augmented Reality and The Site-Specific Digital
Monument,” as part of the Summer Institute “Sights + Sites: Memory,
Monuments and Place After the Digital Turn,” York University, Toronto, May
12, 2015 (with Marita Sturken, Paula Amad, Nick Yablon, and James Young).
5. “Mapping Ararat: Augmented Reality and the Design of an Imaginary Jewish
Homeland,” Keynote Lecture at “Imagined Worlds,” York University Art
History Graduate Student Symposium, York University, Toronto February
27, 2015.
6. “A Morbid Sense of Humour: Photographic Dead Ends and Last Laughs,”
Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto, February 26, 2015.
7. “The Role of Photography in Beat Culture,” A Conversation between Louis
Kaplan and Marcus Boon, University of Toronto Art Centre, September 23,
2014.
8.
“Mapping Ararat: Remembering an Imaginary Jewish Homeland,” Keynote
Presentation at “Contested Memories and the Contours of the Past”
Conference, Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life, Rutgers University,
New Brunswick, NJ, May 13, 2014.
9. “Mapping Ararat: Remembering an Imaginary Jewish Homeland,”
Departments of Art and Art History, History, and Judaic Studies at
University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, April 17, 2014.
10. “Staking Out Visual Studies: Looking Through Berger and Krauss,” at the
Roundtable “Why Visual Studies? Theory and Practice,” at Visual Studies
Across the Divisions: A Symposium, Haverford College, Haverford,
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Pennsylvania, April 10-11, 2014 (with Professors D. Fox Harrell, Kristine
Stiles, and Jeffrey Skoller).
11. “Mapping Ararat: Remembering an Imaginary Jewish Homeland,”at the
Cultural Memory University Seminar, Columbia University, New York
(Professors Marianne Hirsch and Andreas Huyssen), March 25, 2014.
12. “At Wit’s End: Reflections on Jewish Jokes and Anti-Semitism from Weimar
Republic to the Holocaust and Beyond,” Fellows Working Group, Center for
Jewish History, March 18, 2014.
13. “Patriotic Portraits in Troop Formation: Exposing Arthur Mole's (Living)
Photographic Secret” at the Symposium Striking Resemblance: The Changing
Art of Portraiture (organized by Susan Sidlauskas and Donna Gustafson),
Zimmerli Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, March 8, 2014.
14. “Mapping Ararat: Reaminating History,“ From the Archives: Transforming
Scholarship into Public History,” The Center for Jewish History and Yeshiva
University Museum, New York, January 29, 2014.
15. “Mapping Ararat: Augmented Reality Walking Tours,”(with Melissa Shiff and
John Craig Freeman), Invited by Humanities Institute and Department of
Visual Studies (Professors Elizabeth Otto and Stephanie Rothenberg),
University at Buffalo, April 18, 2013.
16. “Mapping Ararat: Augmented Reality and the Imagining of a Jewish
Homeland” at the Workshop “Mining Imagination: Ethnographic
Approaches beyond Knowledge Production,” Mahindra Humanities Center,
Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., April 6, 2013. Michaela Schaeuble
(organizer), Lisa Cartwright, Andrew Irving, Paul Stoller, Kathryn Ramey).
17. “Mapping Ararat: Augmented Reality and the Charting of an Imaginary
Jewish Homeland” (with Melissa Shiff), Plenary Lecture and Video Screening
at the American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference on
the theme of “Global Positioning Systems,” University of Toronto, April 5,
2013.
18. “Augmented Reality and Grand Island’s Jewish Ghosts,” (with Melissa Shiff).
Inaugural Research Lecture of the CRC in Digital Life, Media, and Culture (at
the Invitation of Prof. Isabel Pederson), University of Ontario Institute of
Technology, Oshawa, Ontario, December 3, 2012.
19. ”Augmented Reality and Grand Island’s Jewish Ghosts” (with Melissa Shiff)
Plenary Lecture at Function Keys: Conference of New Technology and Digital
Culture, Centre 3 for Print and Media Arts, Hamilton, Ontario, November 4,
2012. http://www.functionkeys.ca/2012FKCvideos.html
20. “Of Spooks, Proofs, and Truths: Reflections on the Mumler Spirit Photograph
Case,” at the Truths, Lies, and Photographs Symposium in conjunction with the
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exhibition Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop, curated by Mia
Fineman, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, November 2, 2012.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii2O6wz0Zxc (44 minutes)
21. “Mapping Ararat: Envisioning a Virtual Jewish Homeland,” (with Melissa
Shiff and John Craig Freeman) as part of “Reanimating Ararat: Two
Perspectives on Mordecai Noah’s Jewish Homeland,” with Professor Adam
Rovner (University of Denver), sponsored by Dept. of Visual Studies (UTM),
Centre for Jewish Studies, and Jackman Humanities Institute, University of
Toronto, April 16, 2012.
22. “Mapping Ararat: Research Journeys toward a Virtual Jewish History” (with
Melissa Shiff and John Craig Freeman), Digital Project Demonstration at the
Conference “From Access to Integration: Digital Technologies and the Study
of Jewish History,” Center for Jewish History, New York, November 9, 2011.
23. “Cinematic (With)Drawing: Joshua Neustein’s Erasures and the Movement of
Deconstruction,” Invited Keynote Speaker (with Laura U. Marks and Susan
Felleman), Cineflux Symposium, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, May 20, 2011.
24. “Revisiting William Klein’s New York: A Social Ontological Approach” as part
of the symposium “Material Witness: Documentary Photography Since the
1940’s,” organized by Associate Curator Kate Bussard featuring David
Campany, Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Heather Diack, Sophie Hackett, and
Jason Hill. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, February 4, 2011.
25. “On Dennis Oppenheim’s Reading Position for Second Degree Burn,”
Blackwood Breaks, Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto Mississauga,
October 20, 2010.
26. “Moholy-Nagy – Past and Present: Vision and Practice,” Keynote lecture and
discussion with Jan Tichy (School of the Art Institute of Chicago), SIP
Re/Views #1 organized by the Shpilman Institute for Photography, Tel Aviv,
Israel, August 24, 2010.
27. “Dybbuks of Derrida: Traces of Deconstruction in Contemporary Jewish Art,”
Invited Keynote Speaker (with Boris Groys, Iftakhar Dadi and A.A. Bronson),
Max and Iris Stern International Symposium on “Contemporary Art +
Religion,” Concordia University and Musée d’Art Contemporain de
Montréal, Montreal, Canada, April 15, 2010.
28. “Speculating on Specters: The Strange Case of William Mumler and the
Spooked Time of Spirit Photography” Invited Lecture, The Renaissance
Society at The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, March 7, 2010.
29. “The Birth of Spirit Photography and The Return of the Dead” hosted by
Professor Asher Salah, “Death in Western Culture” Proseminar, Bezalel
College of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Israel, December 6, 2009.
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30. “Photographic Medium: The Strange Case of William Mumler, Spirit
Photographer” Faculty Seminar, Department of Communications, Haifa
University, Haifa, Israel, November 24, 2009.
31. “Documenting Ghosts: The Strange Case of William Mumler, Spirit
Photographer,” Invited Lecturer in the Series “Speaking of Photography,”
hosted by Professor Martha Langford, Department of Art History, Concordia
University, Montreal, Canada, October 8, 2009.
32. “Ghosts in the Courtroom: The Strange Case of William Mumler, Spirit
Photographer,” at the Law, Photography, and Other Recording Devices
Colloquium (with Kristine Farley, Simon Stern and Andrea Slane), Center for
Innovation, Law, and Policy, University of Toronto Law School, Toronto,
March 27, 2009.
33. “Introduction,” to “Jean-Luc Nancy and the Sense of the Visual”, a panel coorganized and co-chaired by Louis Kaplan and John Paul Ricco and featuring
Ian Balfour, Ginette Michaud, Hagi Keenan, and Philip Armstrong, College
Art Association, Los Angeles, California, February 25, 2009.
34. “Roundtable on and with Professor Kaja Silverman,” Respondent with
Rebecca Comay, Eric Cazdyn, John Paul Ricco, Kay Armatage, and Linda
Hutcheon (moderator) at Woodsworth College, University of Toronto,
October 31, 2008.
35. “Postmodern Jewish Wedding: Rejuvenating Ritual” (co-presented with Melissa
Shiff) at Colloquium “Objects of Affection: The Wedding in Jewish Culture”,
The Center for Jewish History, New York, April 13, 2008.
36. “Spooked Time: The Temporal Dimensions of Spirit Photography”, Keynote
Lecture at “Time and Photography” Conference, K.U. Leuven, Belgium,
March 14, 2008.
37. Four Lectures/Presentations on Contemporary Jewish Visual Culture -“Reflections on ReJewvenation and Command J: Jewish Laws, Digital Art,”
“Kabbalah Surrealism: The Counter-cultural Art and Life of Wallace
Berman,” “Yahweh Rastafari!: Matisyahu and the Paradoxes of Hasidic
Reggae Superstardom”, and “Postmodern Jewish Wedding: Reinventing Ritual”
(co-presented with Melissa Shiff) at Limmud: Festival of Jewish Learning,
University of Warwick, Coventry, England, December 23-27, 2007.
38. “Art by Telephone: Of Telecommunication Aesthetics and Prank Callers,” at
Art In-Formation: Communication Aesthetics and Network Structures from the 60’s
to the Present, Weserberg Museum fuer moderne Kunst Bremen (Germany),
December 1, 2007.
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39. “Auto Emotion,” Gallery Talk at Sunday Scenes at “Auto Emotion:
Autobiography, Emotion, Self-Fashioning”, Power Plant Contemporary Art
Museum, Toronto, Canada, May 20, 2007.
40. “Introduction” and Roundtable Panelist Contributor (with Sherril Hook, John
Budd, Brian Cantwell-Smith, and David Phillips), Information Preparedness
Project Symposium, University of Toronto Mississauga, April 4, 2007.
41. “ReJewvenation and Heretical Idealism,” Professional Development Plenary
Panel, “Twentieth First Century Audiences,” Council of American Jewish
Museums Conference, Toronto, Canada, January 22, 2007.
42. “Introduction,” 18: Beckett Conference, CCT Building, University of Toronto
at Mississauga, November 22, 2006.
43. “Visual Culture and Communication Program at the University of Toronto at
Mississauga: Trans Effects,” Pedagogy Session, TRANS: Visual Culture
Conference, University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 19, 2006.
44. “Speaking Photographically: Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and the New Vision,” at
the Hangaram Design Art Museum, Seoul Art Centre, Seoul, Korea,
November 12, 2005.
45. “Indexing Virtuality: On Jeffrey Shaw’s Golden Calf,” at Command J: Jewish
Laws, Digital Arts, XPACE, Toronto, November 6, 2005.
46. “’To Be Exposed’: Rethinking Photography and Community with Jean-Luc
Nancy and Spencer Tunick,” Keynote Lecture at the International Conference
“Thinking Photography (Again)”, University of Durham, Durham, England,
United Kingdom, July 8, 2005.
47. “Avant-Garde Jewish Wedding: Projecting Media, Reinventing the Rite”
(with Melissa Shiff), on “Mediating Rituals” panel organized by Jeffrey
Shandler (Rutgers University) at “Religious Witness: The Intimate, The
Everyday, The World,” Center for Religion and Media, New York University,
May 7, 2004.
48. “Frederic Brenner’s jews/america,” Gallery Talk at Frederic Brenner’s Jewish
Journey, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York, December 5, 2003.
(Available on Video)
49. “Nikki S. Lee’s Performances of Community,” and “A Conversation with
Nikki S. Lee,” Colloquium for Visual Culture, University of Toronto Art
Centre, University of Toronto, November 24, 2003.
50. “Moholy Bio-Feedback,” at “Art History and Biography Graduate Seminar,”
Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, California, January 25, 2003.
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51. “L’Chaim, Las Vegas: On Frederic Brenner’s jews/america/a representation”,
Humanities at Noon, University of Toronto at Mississauga, November 27,
2002. (Video Lecture)
52. “Tony Oursler’s Influence Machine as Hauntological Practice,” European
Society for the History of Photography Annual Meeting, Maastricht,
Netherlands, November 11, 2002.
53. “Slashing Toward Diaspora: On Frederic Brenner’s jews/america/a
representation, Department of Fine Art, University of Toronto, Canada, April
10, 2002.
54. “Photography and the Exposure of Community,” Department Of Cinema and
Photography, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, April 24, 2000.
55. “Slashing Toward Diaspora: On Frederic Brenner’s jews/america/a
representation,” Dept. of Religious Studies, German/Jewish Studies, and Art
History, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, March 25, 1999.
56. “Photo-Exposures of Community: The Family of Nan (Goldin),” School of
Art, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, Feb.19, 1999.
57. “Community Exposed Photography: Sharing Nan and Nancy,” (On Nan
Goldin and Jean-Luc Nancy), Dept. of Art and Art History, Creative
Photography, and Electronic Intermedia, University of Florida, Gainesville,
FL, Feb. 1, 1999.
58. "Photos Slashing Toward Diaspora: jews/america," (On Frederic Brenner),
Departments of Comp Lit, Art History, and Jewish Studies, Michigan State
University, East Lansing, Michigan, November, 12, 1998.
59. "Community Exposed Photography: Arbus, Warhol, and Other Model
Families," Department of Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego,
CA, April 27, 1998.
60. "Postmodernism and the Arts of Identity," Endicott College, Beverly, Mass.,
May 14, 1997.
61. "Recycling Moholy: Braco Dimitrijevic's Trip," Kansas City Art Institute,
Missouri, March 18, 1996.
62. "Flux Humor: Fluxus Art and its Laughter", in conjunction with exhibition
"Neo-Dada: Redefining Art 1958-1962," Tufts University Gallery, November
29, 1995.
63. "Of Jokes and Propaganda: Mobilizing the Jewish Joke in the Nazi Era," Dept.
of Foreign Literatures, Ben-Gurion Univ. of the Negev, Beersheba, Israel,
April 4, 1995; Dept. of Communication and Sociology, Univ. of Haifa, Haifa,
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Israel, Dec. 6, 1994; Dept. of Communication, Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem,
Israel Dec. 5, 1994.
64. "Geistreiche Wiederjudmachung: Jewish Joke Reparations and Mourning in
Post-Holocaust Germany," Franz Rosenzweig Center, Hebrew University,
Jerusalem, Israel, March 22, 1995.
65. "Eduard Fuchs and the Problem of Anti-Semitic Caricature," Department of
Art History, Tufts University, Medford, Mass., September 20, 1994.
66. "Eduard Fuchs: A Caricature Study", Seminar on Caricature, Department of
Art History, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, June 7, 1994.
67. "The Jewish Joke Trope in the German-Jewish Cultural Debate: The Case of
Arthur Trebitsch," Center for European Studies, Harvard Univ., Cambridge,
MA, March 21, 1994.
68. "The Secondary Moves: Arthur Trebitsch and "der jüdische Witz,'" Franz
Rosenzweig Research Center, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, March 16,
1994
69. "Charles Fort's Humorous Science," Alter-Histoire Seminar, Ecole Hautes des
Etudes Sciences Sociales, Paris, France, June 5, 1990.
70. "Facing Moholy: Photogram Self-Portraits," Bauhaus Archiv, Berlin,
Germany, March 9, 1990.
B. Invited Exhibitions, Film/Video Screenings, and Artistic Presentations
1. “Mapping Ararat: Globally Positioned Sites (GPS),” Feature exhibition at
the 2013 American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual
Conference, Jackman Humanities Building, University of Toronto, April 47, 2013.
2.
“Mapping Ararat,” as part of the group art exhibition “Where To?”
curated by Udi Edelman at the Israeli Center for Digital Art in Holon,
Israel, April 28 - July 15, 2012. Including artists Yael Bartana, Michael
Blum, and others.
http://www.digitalartlab.org.il/ExhibitionPage.asp?id=676&path=level_1
3. “Post-Modern Jewish Wedding,” (16 minute version) as part of the group
art exhibition “With This Ring: The Wedding in Contemporary Art”
curated by Raz Samira, The Corine Maman Ashdod Museum, December
29, 2011 – July 18, 2012.
4. “Post-Modern Jewish Wedding,” (16 minute version) as part of the group
art exhibition “With This Ring: The Wedding in Contemporary Art”
curated by Raz Samira, The Artists' House, Hadera, November 19, 2011 –
December 25, 2011.
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5. “Post-Modern Jewish Wedding,” (16 minute version) as part of the group
art exhibition “With This Ring: The Wedding in Contemporary Art”
curated by Raz Samira The Municipal Art Gallery, Smilansky Cultural
Center, Rehovot, November 6 – December 29, 2011.
6. “Post-Modern Jewish Wedding,” (16 minute version) as part of the group
art exhibition “With This Ring: The Wedding in Contemporary Art”
curated by Raz Samira at the Apter-Barrer Art Center, Ma’alot-Tarschicha
Municipality, Israel. September 24- November 13, 2011.
7. “Post-Modern Jewish Wedding,” (16 minute version) as part of a group art
exhibition “With This Ring: The Wedding in Contemporary Art” curated
by Raz Samira at the Diaspora Museum of the Jewish People/Beit
Hatfutsot, Tel Aviv, Israel, February 25 – July 2010.
8. “Post-Modern Jewish Wedding,” as part of a group exhibition Kol Ishah, In
Her Voice curated by Rachel Echenberg, Emet Gallery, Congregation
Dorshei Emet, Hampstead, Quebec, Canada, March 25 – December 31 2009.
9. “Post-Modern Jewish Wedding,” Presentation and Screening at
Colloquium Objects of Affection: The Wedding in Jewish Culture. Organized by
Working Group on Jews, Media and Religion (New York University),
Center for Religion and Media (NYU), Center for Jewish History, New
York, April 13, 2008.
10. “Post-Modern Jewish Wedding,” Screening as part of the exhibition Off the
Wall: Artists at Work, The Jewish Museum, New York, March 23-27, 2008.
11. “Post-Modern Jewish Wedding,” Limmud: Festival of Jewish Learning,
University of Warwick, Coventry, England, December 26, 2007.
12. “Avant-Garde Jewish Wedding”, on the Israel Today Television Program,
CTS (Channel 9) Burlington, Ontario, October 14, 2006.
13. Reframing Jewish Ritual: Post-Modern Jewish Wedding featuring Melissa Shiff
as the Bride and Louis Kaplan as the Groom, curated by Michaela Hajkova,
Special Exhibition, Spanish Synagogue, Jewish Museum in Prague, Prague,
Czech Republic, April 5, 2006-June 4, 2006
14. “Avant-Garde Jewish Wedding,” Limmud New York: Festival of Jewish
Learning, Kutscher’s Country Club, Monticello, New York, Jan. 15, 2006.
15. Looking for Ararat, National Museum of Photography, Film and Television,
Bradford, England, July 3, 2005.
16. “Avant-Garde Jewish Wedding,” Seattle Jewish Film Festival, Seattle,
Washington, March 14, 2005.
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17. “Avant-Garde Jewish Wedding,” Limmud Toronto: Festival of Jewish
Learning,” York University, Toronto, November 21, 2004.
18. “Avant-Garde Jewish Wedding,” Buenos Aires, Argentina, Jewish Film
Festival of Argentina, November 4-11, 2004 (3 screenings).
19. “Avant-Garde Jewish Wedding,” Ashkenaz Festival of Jewish Culture,
Toronto, September 5, 2004.
20. “Avant-Garde Jewish Wedding,” directed by Melissa Shiff, co-written and
created by Louis Kaplan and Melissa Shiff, Toronto Jewish Film Festival,
May 9, 2004.
12. TEACHING
LIST OF COURSES
A. Undergraduate courses taught (Primary Designer unless otherwise indicated)
University of Toronto Mississauga
2015-2016: FAH 291: History of Photography (Fall Term) (75 students)
FAH 455: Photography and Humour (Spring Term) (18 students)
VCC 390: Augmented Reality and Contemporary Digital Culture (Spring Term) (50
students)
2012-2013: VCC 415: Theory and Criticism of Photography and New Media (Fall
Term) (18 students)
2011-2012: VST 100: Introduction to Visual Studies I (Fall Term) (171 students).
2009-2010: VCC 415: Theory and Criticism of Photography and New Media
(Spring Term) (18 students)
2008-2009: VCC 400: Advanced Project: Specters of Visual and Media Culture (7
students)
2006-2007: VCC 415: Theory and Criticism of Photography and New Media (19
students)
2005-2006: VCC 425: Art and Media Culture (15 students)
2004-2005: FAH 391: History of Photography (30 students)
VCC 415: Theory and Criticism of Photography and New Media (13
students)
2003-2004: FAH 201: Introduction to Visual Culture (135 students)
CCT 201: Introduction to Visual Culture (111 students)
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2002-2003: FAH 391: History of Photography (23 students)
FAH 388: Theory in Art History (15 students)
FAH 201: Introduction to Visual Culture (115 students)
CCT 201: Introduction to Visual Culture (65 students)
Southern Illinois University
2001-2002: History of Photography (survey),
Screening Photography: Representing Photo History in Films
2000-2001: History of Photography (survey)
Photography and Community
Introduction to Photo Theory and Criticism
Tufts University
1999-2000: History of Photography (regular and summer session)
Twentieth Century Art in Europe and America
Art and Media Culture: The Fifties and Sixties
1998-1999: Representing the Jew as Other (School Museum of Fine Arts Boston)
History of Photography (regular and summer session)
Art and Media Culture: The Fifties and Sixties
1997-1998: History of Photography (regular and summer session)
Art and Media Culture: The Fifties and Sixties
Photography and the Modern Jewish Experience
1996-1997 History of Photography (regular and summer session)
Twentieth Century Art in Europe and America
Art and Media Culture: The Fifties and Sixties
Introduction to History of World Art (coordinator)
1995-1996 History of Photography (regular and summer session)
The Avant-Garde from Baudelaire to Surrealism
Jewish Humor in the Modern Age
Stanford Berlin Study Center
1991 History of Media Technologies in Germany and United States
Kansas City Art Institute (Department of Liberal Arts)
1988 Philosophy and Comedy
Pop Art and Culture
Modern Western Thought
Classics of Children’s Literature
Columbia College Chicago
1987 Introduction to Philosophy
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B. Graduate courses taught (Primary Designer in all cases)
University of Toronto
2015-2016: Comprehensive Examination and Dissertation Topic Reading Course
with Liron Efrat (FAH 5000Y)
Augmented Reality Art (FAH 1500HF), 11 students.
2014-2015: Comprehensive Examination and Dissertation Topic Reading Course
with Nancy O’Connor (FAH 5000Y)
2013-2104: Comprehensive Examination and Dissertation Topic Reading Course
with Ann Whittall (FAH 5000Y)
2010-2011: Photography and Modernism: Montage and Modern Life (FAH 1520S)
2008-2009: Practicum Project Component (Microblogging at the University of
Toronto) of the Faculty of Information course FIS 2173: Information Professional
Practicum. With Norman Valdez Chavez and Duygu Basmaci, Summer 2008.
2004-2005: Photography and Modernism: Montage and Modern Life (FAH
1520F)
2003-2004: Photography and Community (FAH 1515F)
2002-2003: Contemporary Theories of Photography (FAH 1510S)
Southern Illinois University
2001-2002: Contemporary Theory and Analysis of Photography: Part I (Fall)
Contemporary Theory and Analysis of Photography: Part II (Spring)
2000-2001: History of Photography: 1839-1920 (Fall)
History of Photography: 1920-2000 (Spring)
Tufts University
1999-2000: Photography and the Exposure of Community (Spring)
C. Theses Supervised
University of Toronto
Doctoral Students
Primary Supervisions
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David Alexandre, Ph.D. Graduate Program in History of Art, University of
Toronto, Primary Supervisor. Fall 2003 – Present. Comprehensive Exams
Completed: April 2007. Title of Dissertation: “Violence and Weimar Visual
Culture: Embodying the Image of the First World War."
Heather Diack, Ph.D. Graduate Program in History of Art, University of Toronto,
Primary Supervisor. April 2004 – June 2010. Comprehensive Exams Completed:
April 2006. Title of Dissertation: “The Benefit of the Doubt: The Photographic
Conditions of Conceptual Art.” FOE: April 9, 2010. Committee: M. Cheetham, E.
Legge. Externals: B. Stimson (UC, Davis), J. Ricco (U Toronto). Degree
Awarded: June 2010. Current Position: Assistant Professor (tenure track),
University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL.
Irmgard Emmelhainz, Ph.D. Graduate Program in History of Art, University of
Toronto, Primary Supervisor: April 2004 – March 2007, Dissertation Committee
Member: March 2007 – April 2009. Comprehensive Exams Completed: August
2005. Title of Dissertation: "Who Speaks? The Crisis of Representation and
Representativity: Jean-Luc Godard’s Ici et ailleurs (1974)." Degree Awarded: June
2009.
Meredith Inksetter Reddy, Ph.D. Student, Graduate Department of Art, June
2008-June 2015. Primary Supervisor. Comprehensive Exams Completed.
February 23, 2010. ABD Status, August 2010. Dissertation Title: “Haunted
Mediums: Women, Photography, Spiritualism, 1890-1930.” FOE: September 11,
2014. Degree Awarded: June 2015.
Provisional Supervisor
Ann Whittall, Ph.D. Student, Graduate Department of Art, March 2013-Present.
Nancy O’Connor, Ph.D. Student, Graduate Dept. of Art, April 2014-Present.
Liron Efrat, Ph.D. Student, Graduate Department of Art, April 2015-Present.
Dissertation Committee Member
Sara Angel, Ph.D. candidate, Graduate Program in History of Art, University of
Toronto, Secondary Supervisor. June 2013-Present. Title of Dissertation:
Joseph Ferenbok, Ph.D. Graduate Program in Faculty of Information Studies and
Knowledge Media Design Institute. Secondary Supervisor. January 2005December 2008. Title of Dissertation: “The Identity Myth: Constructing the Face
in Technologies of Citizenship.” Supervisor: Andrew Clement. Degree Awarded:
June 2009.
Nina Kurtovic, Ph.D., Graduate Program in History of Art, University of
Toronto, Secondary Supervisor. “Communist Stardom in the Cold War: Josip
Broz Tito in Western and Yugoslav Photography, 1943-1980," Degree Awarded:
June 2010.
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Adi Louria-Hayon, Ph.D. candidate, Graduate Program in History of Art,
University of Toronto, Secondary Supervisor. “Folding Spaces and Porous
Bodies: Sound and Space in Bruce Nauman,” July 2009-Present. FOE: March 11,
2013. Degree Awarded: June 2013.
Romi Mikulinsky, Ph.D., Graduate Department of English, University of
Toronto, Secondary Supervisor. 2004 - 2009. Comprehensive Exams Completed:
January 2006. Dissertation Defense: November 29, 2008. Title: “Photography
and Trauma in Photo-Fiction: Literary Montage in the Writings of Jonathan
Safran Foer, Aleksander Hemon, and W.G. Sebald.” Degree Awarded – June
2009.
Sean Starke, Ph.D. candidate, Graduate Department of English, University of
Toronto, Second Supervisor. 2010-Present. Title: “The ‘Semi-Transparent
Envelope: Virginia Woolf and Photographic Modernism.” Exams Passed: April
10, 2012.
Comprehensive Exams Committee Member
Tyler Kowalchuk, Ph. D. Student, Graduate Department of Art, April 2010Present. Comprehensive Exams Member. Comprehensive Exams Completed:
September 2011.
Alma Mikulinsky, Ph.D., Graduate Department of History of Art, University of
Toronto, Secondary Supervisor for Comprehensive Exams Completed:
September 2006.
Brian Beaton, Ph.D. Graduate Program in Department of History, University of
Toronto, Secondary Supervisor. January 2004 – July 2005. Comprehensive Exams
Completed: July 2005.
External Examiner for Dissertations
Yani Kong, “Sensitive Mediums: Spiritualism, Spirit Photography and the ReEnchantment of the World,” MA Program, The Centre for the Study of Theory
Culture and Politics, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, February 18, 2011
(Committee: Veronica Hollinger (supervisor) and Doug Torgerson).
Etienne Turpin, “Aesthetics of Expenditure: Philosophy, Art, and the Infinite
Faculty,” (On Georges Bataille and Robert Smithson), Ontario Institute of Studies
in Education (OISE), March 19, 2010. (Committee: Megan Boler (supervisor), John
Ricco, Andy Payne, Rebecca Comay).
Corina Ionescu, “Retreating Aphaeresis: Michaelangelo, the Self-Portrait and
Other Ruins,” Centre for Comparative Literature, December 7, 2012. Committee:
Julie LeBlanc (supervisor), Roland LeHuenen, John Ricco, Jill Ross, and Peggy
Kamuf (external)).
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Post-Doctoral Mentor
Dr. Stacy M. Jameson (Univ. California Davis), Jackman Humanities Institute
Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Toronto, September 2012 – June 2013.
Masters Students
Rodney Carter, M.A., Information Studies, University of Toronto, “The Archival
Potential of Anonymous People in Photographs,” Completed November 2004,
Secondary Supervisor.
Louise Skidmore, M.A., Museum Studies, University of Toronto, “Clearing the
Picture, The Museum and the Photograph: Reassessing the 1910 International
Exhibition of Pictorial Photography at the Albright Art Gallery,” Completed
August 2003, Primary Supervisor.
Undergraduate Independent Studies
Torie Devyn Noonan (Department of English, UTSG) as part of JHI Program
(ENG 390Y), Fall and Spring Terms 2014-2015.
Daniela de Castro e Silva, “Postcolonialism and Contemporary Exhibitions” FAH
488: Studies in Modern Art, Fall 2002-Spring 2003.
Anthony Wu, “Egon Shiele and Psychoanalysis,” FAH 488: Studies in Modern
Art, Fall 2002.
Tufts University
Masters of Art History Students
Tamara Corm, M.A. Program in Art and Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, “Matisse and Orientalism,” 1999-2000, Secondary Supervisor.
Yuka Yumaji, “Photography as Folklore: Carrie Mae Weems,” M.A., Museum
Studies Program, Tufts University, 1998-1999, Secondary Supervisor.
Emily Gephardt, M.A., Department of Art History, Tufts University, “Drag
Performativity in the Photography of Yasumasa Morimura,” 1996-1997,
Secondary Supervisor.
Laura Meister, M.A. Department of Art History, Tufts University, “Women
Photographers in Boston,” 1996-1997, Secondary Supervisor.
Gregory Williams, M.A. Department of Art History, Tufts University, “Art and
Language and Conceptual Art,” 1995-1996; Secondary Supervisor.
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Masters of Fine Art Students (School of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
Final M.F.A. Thesis Show Critiques, Aidekman Art Center, Tufts University,
Medford, Mass., Fall 1995- Spring 2000. M.F.A. Students included Will
Pappenheimer, Jeff Warmouth, Matt Linton, Alice Carter, Davis Bliss, Nuno de
Campos, Alexandra Rozenman, Julia Szabo, Charley Friedman, Alex Solis, Peggy
Raphael, John Lapham, Debra Verhoff, Brittany Gravely, Eric Doeringer, Charles
Roberts and others.
D. Other Teaching and Lectures Given
Curriculum Development, Technological Enhancement of Teaching and
Supervisions Related to Teaching and Research
Supervision of Sarah James, Work-Study Research Assistant, September 2012March 2013.
Supervision of Helen Orvis, OSAP Research Assistant, September 2011 – March
2012.
Supervision of Melissa Moss, OSAP Research Assistant, October 2010-March
2011.
Coordinator, Institute of Communication and Culture Self-Study and
Curriculum Review, Summer and Fall 2009.
Program Coordinator and Faculty Advisor, Visual Culture and Communication,
Communication Culture and Information Technology and Centre for Visual and
Media Culture, University of Toronto at Mississauga, July 2003-June 2006. Duties
included planning, design and implementation of new courses and new
curriculum, review of course syllabuses, hiring and mentoring of teaching
assistants and sessional appointments, etc.
Full implementation and utilization of Web/CT as well as digital delivery of
course lectures via PowerPoint and Graphic Converter programs for
“Introduction to Visual Culture” survey classes, Spring 2003- Spring 2007.
Supervision of Jillian Lanthier, OSAP Research Assistant, October 2007-March
2008 and September 2009-March 2010.
Supervision of Michal Majernik, OSAP Research Assistant, September 2006March 2008.
Supervision of Ananda Korchynski, Research Assistant, September 2005-April
2006.
Supervision and Mentoring of Teaching Assistants for “Introduction to Visual
Culture,” courses, Spring 2002 and Spring 2003 (Amish Morrell, Ryan White,
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Joseph Ferenbok, Linda Steer, Haley Waxberg, Michael Neerhoff, and Moira
Cowan).
Supervision of work-study students (Arvand Owji, Farhang Farid, Adi Saraf,
Anil Godhia, and Kate Witwicki) to technologically enhance undergraduate and
graduate teaching (scan and digitalize slides, download images, upload
materials to FADIS, create links to websites, and to help administer course
websites on Web C/T and Course Pages), September 2003-August 2004.
Supervision of work-study students (Laura Perrin, Adi Saraf, and Irene Choi) to
technologically enhance undergraduate and graduate teaching (scan and
digitalize slides, download images, upload materials to FADIS, create links to
websites, and to help administer course websites on Web C/T), September 2002 –
March 2003.
Supervision and Mentoring of Teaching Assistants for “History of Photography”
survey and Graduate Research Assistant, Southern Illinois University (Carla
Cioffi, Gina Willard, and Shannon Petrello), August 2000-January 2002.
Supervision and Mentoring of Teaching Assistants for “Art and Media Culture”
at Tufts University (Laura Meister, Sarah Rogers, and Ken Linehan), Fall 1996Spring 2000.
Supervision and Mentoring of Seven Teaching Assistants for “Introduction to
History of World Art,” Tufts University, Spring 1997.
2. Guest Teaching and Presentations at Special Events
1. Presenter and Facilitator (with formal introduction) for Simon Critchley,
On Humour at Fellows Seminar, Jackman Humanities Institute, October 2,
2014.
2. Lecturer, “Spectral Media: The Haunted Image in Visual Studies,” in VST
101: Introduction to Visual Studies, February 13, 2013.
3. Presenter, Faculty Roundtable, Introduction to Visual Studies, Chaired by
Professor John Ricco, January 16, 2013.
4. Presenter, Convocation Ceremony, University of Toronto Mississauga,
June 7, 2010.
5. Lecture and Signing for The Strange Case of William Mumler, Spirit
Photographer, The Harvard Coop/Barnes and Noble Bookstore, Cambridge
Massachusetts, December 8, 2008.
6. Book Launch: Presentation and Signing for The Strange Case of William
Mumler, Spirit Photographer, David Mirvish Bookstore, Toronto, October
30, 2008.
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7. “Introduction” and Moderator for the “Binationalism” Lecture by
Professor Steven Aschheim, Visiting Professor, Department of History and
Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Toronto, October 6, 2008.
8. “Mumler’s Ghosts: The Uncanny in Spirit Photography,” Videotape
Lecture included in “Colloquium” organized by artist Stephane Gilot,
Cineplastic Campus (April 7-July 1, 2008), Blackwood Gallery, University
of Toronto, Mississauga.
9. Participant and Actor in Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak in the Public Art
Project Love Squared, Dundas Square, Toronto, Mississauga, Summer 2007.
10. “Introduction and Welcome,” Visual Resources Association Canadian
Chapter Spring Meeting, at Institute of Communication and Culture,
University of Toronto Mississauga, February 27, 2008.
11. “Introduction and Welcome,” Signals in the Dark: Art in the Shadow of
War Symposium. Keynote Speakers: W.J.T. Mitchell and Boris Groys,
Produced by Blackwood Gallery and Centre for Visual and Media
Culture, University of Toronto, Mississauga. MiSt Theatre, CCT Buiilding,
University of Toronto Mississauga, January 25, 2008.
12. Faculty Participant, Digital Humanities Roundtable at the University of
Toronto, January 10-11, 2008. Organized by Professors Robert Gibbs
(Director, Humanities Institute) and Brian Cantwell-Smith (Dean, Faculty
of Information).
13. Interview with Professor Tom Conley (Harvard University), Interviewed
by Louis Kaplan and John Ricco, Media Generator, Institute of
Communication and Culture, University of Toronto Mississauga, March 9,
2007.
14. “Introduction” of Professor Tom Conley (Harvard University) “Maps in
Films: Cartographic Confusions” co-sponsored by Colloquium on Visual
Culture and Institute of Communication and Culture, William Doo
Auditorium, University of Toronto, March 8, 2007.
15. Book Launch and Signing for American Exposures: Photography and
Community in the Twentieth Century, David Mirvish Books, Toronto,
December 11, 2005.
16. “Looking for Ararat,” (with Melissa Shiff), Presentation and
Demonstration of Web-based Project for the Launch of Mosaica Website
(http://www.mosaica.ca), Technology Enhanced Learning Centre, York
University, Toronto, June 8, 2004.
17. Conducted Studio Critiques, Candidate-Laureates, Hoger Institut fur
Schone Kunsten (Higher Institute of Fine Arts, HISK), Antwerp, Belgium,
November 14-16, 2002.
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18. “Television in the Comic Key of Ernie Kovacs,” Guest Lecturer, Fern
Logan’s Visual Literacy Class, Southern Illinois University, April, 2001.
19. “Visual Stereotypes: The Jewish Experience,” Guest Lecturer, Fern
Logan’s Visual Literacy Class, Southern Illinois University, September 21,
2000.
20. “Photographing Unseens: Spirit Photography Meets ChronoPhotography,” Guest Lecturer, 19th Century Photography Class (Jim
Dow), Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, November
9, 1999.
21. “Rhetorics of the Image,” Guest Lecturer, Cross-Currents Seminar (Linda
Olstein), School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, September 21, 1999.
22. “You Degenerate!”: The Artist’s Fight for Equality in Nazi Germany and
Cold War America,” Tufts College Experience, Tufts University, July 30,
1997.
23. Conducted Studio Critiques, Mid-Semester Reviews, School of the
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, Spring 1996-Spring 2000.
3. Media and Press Interviews and Appearances
Interview with Cynthia Canty for the program “Stateside” on Michigan Radio
(NPR affiliate) about the living photographs of Arthur Mole, May 4, 2015;
Segment Aired: May 18, 2015.
Interviewed by Professor Christopher Cantwell (University of Missouri) for
Social Science Research Council study on Digital Religious Studies that includes
the Mapping Ararat project as a case study, April 20, 2015.
Video Interview with Martyna Starosta for a feature report on Mapping Ararat
project in Forward online, February 14, 2014.
Endorsement for Media Release for the Gift of Allen Ginsberg Photographs to the
University of Toronto Art Centre and Fisher Rare Book Library, October, 2013.
Interview with Stephen Strauss for an article on the Mapping Ararat published in
Walrus Magazine, July 2013.
Interview with Renee Ghert-Zhand for an article on the Mapping Ararat project in
Forward on-line. Published April 25, 2012.
Interview with Vito Cupoli for newspaper article on the subject of digital
photography editing software for The Globe and Mail, Toronto, June 17, 2010.
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Interview with Neal Matthews, Popular Photography on orbs and spirits in
photography, January 16, 2009.
Interview with Chris Lovett, Neighborhood News Network, Boston (Cable
Channel 9) about The Strange Case of William Mumler, Spirit Photographer,
December 8, 2008.
Anjum Nayyar, “New UTM Course Gives Students a Chance to Explore
Hauntology,” University of Toronto Bulletin, September 9, 2008.
Interview with Professor Peeter Linnap (Tartu Art College, Estonia) on
“Chronotopes” for TV Documentary on Estonian Television, April 14, 2008.
Carol Slutsky, “Jewish Studies’ Growing Pains,” The Jewish Week, December 26,
2007.http://www.thejewishweek.com/viewArticle/c36_a1554/News/New_Yor
k.html Interviewed at Association of Jewish Studies Conference in Toronto.
Julie Tyios, “Profile: Louis Kaplan,” The Medium, November 26, 2007, p. 3
Interview with Michele Gabourie on “MediaGenerator@UTM”, January 2007 on
YouTube, at www.mediagenerator.ca
Interview with Dave Pascoe, Command J Exhibition and ReJewvenation Conference
Report on Faith Journal, CTS (Burlington, Ontario), Aired: November, 2005.
Press Conference, Postmodern Jewish Wedding, with Melissa Shiff, Jewish
Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, April 5, 2006.
Guest, Israel Today, Television Program, CTV (Burlington, Ontario). 60 minutes.
Topic: “Photography, Community, and Modern Jewish Experience,” Interviewed
by Professor Howard Adelman (York University), Taping: September 13, 2004.
Aired: February 27, 2005.
ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS
13 A. Positions held and service on committees within the University
University of Toronto and UTM
Member of Tenure Reading Committee for Professor Meghan Sutherland,
Department of Visual Studies, University of Toronto Mississauga, September
2015 – January 2016.
Member, Promotion Committee for Professor Jeremy Packer, Institute of
Communication, Culture, and Information Technology, UTM and Faculty of
Information, University of Toronto, July – September, 2015.
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Dean’s Representative for Asst./Associate Professor Search Committee,
Department of English, University of Toronto Mississauga, September 2015 –
Present.
Member, Research Committee, University of Toronto Mississauga, September
2015 – Present.
Member of the Committee to select JHI Graduate Research Fellows, April- May
2014.
Reviewer of Applications for JHI Undergraduate Fellows, April 2014.
Member, Search Committee, Mellon Post-Doctoral Research Fellows, Jackman
Humanities Institute, January 2014- March 2014. (Appointments of Maggie
Hennefeld (Brown), Katie Price (Penn), Matt Cohen (Michigan), and Peter Jones
(NYU)
Co-Chair, Search Committee, Assistant to the Chair, Department of Visual
Studies, September 2013 (Appointment of Cindy Mallory).
Member, Search Committee for Chair of Historical Studies, UTM, January 2013.
Chair, Academic Planning Committee, Department of Visual Studies, November
2011-June 2013.
Chair, Workload Policy Committee, Department of Visual Studies, September
2011- June 2013.
Chair, Graduate Expansion Fund Committee, Department of Visual Studies,
October 2011-June 2013.
Chair, Promotion Committee of Dr. Christof Migone to Senior Lecturer, July
2012- June 2013.
Chair, DVS Advancement Committee, Review of Dr. Amish Morrell, October
2012-April 2013.
Art and Art History Program Director, Department of Visual Studies, September
2011-June 2013.
Chair, Curriculum Committee, Department of Visual Studies, September 2010June 2013.
Chair, Search Committee, Assistant to the Chair (Maternity Leave Replacement),
Department of Visual Studies, May 2011 (Appointment of Joanna Sheridan).
Member, Teaching Committee, Promotion Review of Professor Matt Kavaler
(Department of Art, St. George), January 2011.
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Chair, Tenure Committee for Professor Kajri Jain (Department of Visual Studies,
UTM), September 2010-March 2011.
Chair, Tenure Committee for Professor Brian Price (Department of Visual
Studies, UTM), July 2010-November, 2010.
Chair, Search Committee, Assistant to the Chair, Department of Visual Studies,
May – June, 2010 (Appointment of Nina Lue Pann).
Co-Chair, Search Committee, Administrative Coordinator (continuing
appointment), Institute of Communication, Culture, and Information Technology
and Department of Visual Studies, June 2010- September 2010 (Appointment of
Diane Pracin).
Co-Chair, Search Committee, Undergraduate Counselor, Department of Visual
Studies, March 2010-April 2010 (Appointment of Stephanie Sullivan).
Chair, Committee for Librarian Permanent Status Review, Dr. Harriet Sonne de
Torrens, April 2010- June 2010.
Chair, Search Committee, Associate Professor of Cinema Studies, Department of
Visual Studies, December 2009-June 2010 (Appointments of Brian Price and
Meghan Sutherland).
Member, Faculty Advisory Committee (with Brock Silversides (Chair), Gage
Averill, Charlie Keil, Janet Paterson, and Julie Hannaford), Media Commons
Archival Collections and Acquisitions, Robarts Library, University of Toronto,
July 2009-June 2013.
Chair, Search Committee, Administrative Coordinator (term position), Institute
of Communication and Culture, September, 2009. (Appointment of Diane
Pracin).
Chair, Tenure Committee (Associate Professor), Professor Alison Syme (CVMC),
July 2009-March 2010.
Chair, Promotions Committee (Senior Lecturer), Professor Marc Dryer (BMC),
April 2009-October 2009.
Member, Jackman Program for the Arts Review Subcommittee, Jackman
Humanities Institute, April 2009-June 2010.
Member, Digital Media Experts Roundtable (Chaired by VP Research Paul
Young), University of Toronto, April 2008-2011.
Chair, Five Year Review, Institute of Communication and Culture, Summer and
Fall 2008. Coordinated and prepared Review Document for the five units (110
pages) as well as the ICC Response to the Review. Reviewers: Will Straw (McGill
University), Thomas Porcello (Vassar College).
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Chair, Search Committee, Lecturer and Director/Curator, Blackwood Gallery,
Institute of Communication and Culture, January 2008-May 2008 (Appointment
of Dr. Christof Migone).
Chair, Search Committee, Librarian II, Centre for Visual and Media Culture,
Institute of Communication and Culture, June 2007-August 2007 (Appointment
of Dr. Harriet Sonne de Torrens).
Chair, Third Year Review, Professor Alison Syme, Centre for Visual and Media
Culture, Institute of Communication and Culture, Summer 2007.
Chair, Search Committee, Lecturer in Biomedical Communications, Institute of
Communication and Culture, June 2007-August 2007 (Appointment of Marc
Dryer)
Chair, Review Committee for Lecturer Tracey Bowen (Part Time appointment),
Summer 2007.
Member, Chair’s Advisory Committee, Department of Art, July 2007-June 2008.
Member, Advisory Board, Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto,
March 2007-June 2010.
Member, Design Committee, Jackman Humanities Institute, University of
Toronto, March 2007-June 2010.
Member, CONCERT Working Group (organized by Meric Gertler and Gale
Moore), April 2007-June 2010.
Chair, Search Committee, Assistant to the Director Position, Institute of
Communication and Culture March 2007- May 2007 (Appointment of Jessica
Gillies).
Chair, Search Committee, Biomedical Communications with an emphasis on
Media Design, Institute of Communication and Culture, September 2006-April
2007 (Offer to Jessica Mudry, Declined)
Chair, Search Committee, Cultural Studies of Digital Media and Technology,
Centre for Visual and Media Culture and Communication Culture and
Information Technology Programs, Institute of Communication and Culture, July
2006-April 2007. (No appointment)
Chair, Search Committee, Asian New Media Position, Centre for Visual and
Media Culture, Institute of Communication and Culture, August 2006-March
2007. (Appointment of Kajri Jain)
Member, University of Toronto Mississauga Undergraduate Education
Committee, July 2006-June 2007.
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Member, University of Toronto Arts Council, January 2006-October 2008.
Appointment to Executive Committee, March 2007.
Chair, Executive and Planning Committee, Media Generator@UTM, Institute of
Communication and Culture, Spring 2006-June 2010.
Chair, Search Committee, Contemporary Art and Media Theory and Criticism
Position, Centre for Visual and Media Culture, Institute of Communication and
Culture, January 2006-May 2006. (Appointment of John Paul Ricco)
Member, Cross-Appointment Search Committee, Institute of Communication
and Culture and Graduate Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto,
Spring 2006. (No appointment made).
Member, Program and Planning Committee, Colloquium on Visual Culture,
University of Toronto (Alexander Nagel, Chair), July 2003-June 2004; Acting CoChair (with Lisa Steele), July 2004-June 2006.
2005-2006 Invited Speakers: Simon Glass, Stephen Bann, Atom Egoyan, Sara
Diamond, Alison Syme, John Mighton, Eduardo Cadava.
2004-2005 Invited Speakers: Caroline Jones, Allan Sekula, Douglas Crimp, Paul
Wong, Deepali Dewan, and Lisa Cartwright.
Member, Graduate Program Committee and Admissions Committee, Graduate
Department of History of Art, University of Toronto, July 2003-June 2005.
Program Coordinator and Faculty Advisor, Visual Culture and Communication,
Communication Culture and Information Technology and Centre for Visual and
Media Culture, University of Toronto at Mississauga (Chair, Teaching Assistant
Hiring Committee and Chair, Sessional Hiring Committee). July 2003-June 2006.
Member, Search Committee, Urban and Media Culture Position, Centre for
Visual and Media Culture and Culture Communication and Information
Technology Program, July 2004-May 2005 (No appointment).
Member, Search Committee, Modernist Position, Centre for Visual and Media
Culture, UTM, July 2004- May 2005. (Appointment of Alison Syme)
Chair, Visual Culture and Communication Admissions Committee, July 2003June 2006.
Member, CCIT Academic Planning Committee, UTM, July 2002-June 2010.
Member, Planning Document Committee, Centre for Visual and Media Culture,
UTM, July 2003-May 2004.
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Member, Planning Committee and Conference Co-organizer (with A. Most and
A. Shternshis), “The Futures of Jewish Culture,” Program in Jewish Studies,
October 28-31 2005, April 2004-November 2005.
Member, Advisory Committee to Art and Art History Program, UTM and
Sheridan Institute, Sept. 2003-July 2006.
Member, Advisory Committee to Blackwood Gallery, UTM, July 2002-June 2013.
Member, Search Committee, Administrative Assistant, Centre for Visual and
Media Culture, UTM December 2003, June 2004.
Member, Planning Document Committee, Culture Communication and
Information Technology, UTM Jan. 2003-May 2004.
Member, Search Committee for Sheridan CCIT Position in Visual Culture and
New Media, May and June, 2003 (Appointment of Kathleen Hearn).
Awards Committee and Presenter Art History “Eyes on You” Award at Sheridan
College Art and Art History Awards Ceremony, Oakville, November 21, 2002,
November 20, 2003, December 2, 2004. November 21, 2007.
Southern Illinois University
Curriculum and Graduate Committee, Department of Cinema and Photography,
Southern Illinois University, July 2000-June 2002.
Slide Collection Advisor, Department of Cinema and Photography, Southern
Illinois University, July 2000-June 2002.
Undergraduate Education Committee, College of Mass Communication and
Media Arts, Southern Illinois University, July 2000-June 2002.
Tufts University
Associate Faculty Member, Minor in Mass Communications and Media Studies
Minor, 1997-2000.
Departmental Representative to School of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, FallSpring 1996-1997.
13 B. Positions held and service on committees and organizations outside the
University of scholarly and academic significance.
Member, “Deceptive Arts: Machines, Magic, Media,” International Consortium
of over 100 Scholars, May 2015- Present.
External Reviewer of Tenure Dossier, Department of Visual and Environmental
Studies, Harvard University, 2012-2013.
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Member, Editorial Board, Visual Methodologies, Vancouver: Simon Fraser
University, June 2011-Present.
http://journals.sfu.ca/vm/index.php/vm/index
Contributing Editor, History of Photography, London, England: Routledge (Taylor
& Francis Publishing), January 1, 2011-Present.
Chair, Review Panel for Research Grants in “Philosophy and Photography”,
Shpilman Institute of Photography (The SIP), Tel Aviv, Israel, November 2010April 2011. Panelists: Professors Eduardo Cadava, Arthur C. Danto, Margaret
Iversen, Hagi Ke’naan, John Tagg, and Hilde Van Gelder).
UTM Representative, Mississauga Cultural Resource Partnership, November
2010-June 2013.
Senior Research Consultant, Shpilman Institute of Photography (SIP), Tel Aviv,
Israel, May 2010-Present.
External Reader of Tenure Dossier, Department of Comparative Literature and
Cultural Studies, Stony Brook University, 2009-2010.
External Assessor, Undergraduate Program Review, Department of Fine Arts
Cultural Studies, York University, Toronto, Canada, February 4-5, 2008.
Member, International Board of Advisors, Journal of Photography and Culture,
London, England: Berg Publishing, August 2006-Present.
Member, Editorial Board, TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, York
University, Toronto, Canada, March 2005-Present.
Member, Editorial Board, CR: The New Centennial Review, Michigan State
University, September 2004-Present.
Member, Board of Advisors, MOSAICA Website for New Jewish Culture
(www.mosaica.ca), York University, Toronto, Canada, January 2004-December
2008.
Member, Seminar on Jewish Art History and Visual Culture, organized by The
Jewish Museum, New York, and The Jewish Theological Seminary. Selected in a
group of fifty scholars from Northeast United States and Canada. Spring 2003Present.
Co-founder and co-organizer (with Elspeth Brown) of “Photo Folks”, a GTAwide group of photography interested faculty, graduate students and curators
who meet on a regular basis and plan activities related to photography.
September 2003-June 2006.
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Member, “Towards a New Diaspora: Representing Jewish Culture in a Virtual
World,” York Advanced Seminar in the Humanities, York University, Toronto,
Canada. Fall 2002 – December 2003.
Member, Boston Collective of Photo Historians and Museum Curators,
organized by Anne Havinga (Museum of Fine Arts Boston) Boston,
Massachusetts 1997-2000.
Program Coordinator, 52 Annual Conference of the Midwest College Art
Association, Fall 1988. “The Artist as Heroic Figure: Myth, Society, Struggle,”
Kansas City, Missouri. Participants included Jean Francois Lyotard, Dara
Birnbaum, Peter Eisenman, Leon Golub, Robert Storr, Tom Conley, Scott
Michaelsen, Manual and others.
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OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION
1. Peer Review Work
Peer Review for book manuscript for Fordham University Press, March 2015.
Peer Review for essay submitted to History of Photography, April-May 2014.
Peer Reviewer for essay submitted to Photography and Culture, February 2013.
Peer Reviewer for book proposal for Routledge Press, February, 2013.
Peer Reviewer for an essay submitted to Photography and Culture, August 2012.
Peer Reviewer for Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Canada
Insight Grant Application, January 2012.
Peer Reviewer for essays submitted to History of Photography, December 2011 and
April 2012.
Endorsement for Marco Sonzongi, ed., This Way: Covering/Uncovering Tadeusz
Borowski’s This Way For the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen (Wellington, New Zealand:
Dunmore Publishing, 2011).
Peer Reviewer for an essay submitted to Jewish Social Studies, August 2010.
Peer Reviewer for Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Canada
Application, January 2009.
Peer reviewer for essay submitted to Images: A Journal of Jewish Visual Culture,
February 2008.
Peer reviewer for Journal of Photography and Culture, January 2008.
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Peer reviewer for Jan Baetens and Hilde van Gelder, “Belgian Photography” K.U.
Leuven Research Council, Leuven, Belgium, April 2007.
Peer reviewer for Second Edition of Lisa Cartwright and Marita Sturken, Practices
of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture (New York: Oxford University Press,
2009).
Jay Prosser, Light in the Dark: Photography and Loss (Minneapolis, MN: University
of Minnesota Press, 2004).
Terry Barrett, Criticizing Photographs: An Introduction to Understanding Images
(New York: McGraw Hill, 2000). (Review on the McGraw Hill website. See:
http://www.mhhe.com/catalogs/0767411862.mhtml)
Rachel Rosenfeld Lafo and Gillian Nagler, Photography in Boston: 1955-1985
(Cambridge, MA.: M.I.T. Press, 2000.
Peer reviewer of essays submitted to Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities
and CR: The New Centennial Review.
2. Professional Consulting
Center for Religion and Media, New York University
Chicago Tribune
CONTACT Photography Festival Toronto
Frank Elbaz Gallery, Paris, France
Koffler Centre for the Arts, Bathurst Jewish Community Centre, Toronto
Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto
Martha Stewart Living
Modiya: Jews and Media Working Group and Website (New York University)
The Jewish Museum, New York
Popular Photography
Shpilman Institute for Photography, Tel Aviv, Israel
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