Assistant Professor; Director of Visual Culture
Contact information:
Phone: 608-265-0136
Email: jhcasid@wisc.edu
Office hours:
Mondays 4:00-5:30 and by appointment
B.A. Princeton University, 1988
M.A. Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, 1989
Ph.D. Harvard University, 1999
Curriculum Vitae
Areas of Research and Teaching:
Visual Culture, early modern to contemporary, Europe and the Americas; Colonial Cultural Studies and Postcolonial Theory; Media and Technology Studies; Gender Studies and Queer Theory; and Visual Studies connecting Historical Study, Theoretical Speculation, and Studio Practice. Practicing photographer.
On faculty since 2002.
Courses taught:
- 354 Cross-Cultural Arts Around the Atlantic Rim: 1800 to the Present
- 355 History of Photography
- 500 Proseminar in Art History (Topics: "What is the Baroque?", "On Beauty, Value, Culture, and History")
- 600 Special Topics (Topics: "Science, Hermeticism & Visual Culture"; "Queer Studies, Visual Culture"; "Visual Transculture"; "Theory as Visual Practice, Visual Practice as Theory", "Aesthetics and Visual Culture")
- 701 Practicum in Art History: Bibliography, Historiography, Methods
- 800 Seminar (Topics: "Case Histories: Psychoanalysis & Visual Culture"; "Visual Transculture")
- INTER-LS 102 (FIG): Topic: "Imagining Diverse
Community"
Related websites:
Selected publications: |
Sowing Empire: Landscape and Colonization, University of Minnesota Press, 2005. |
| "Inhuming Empire: Islands as Plantation Nurseries and Graves," in The Global Eighteenth Century, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. | |
| "His Master's Obi, " in the second edition of The Visual Culture Reader, Routledge Press, 2002. | |
| "Queer(y)ing Georgic: Pleasure, Utility, and Marie-Antoinette's Ornamented Farm," Eighteenth-Century Studies (1997) | |
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