History of Art and Visual Culture
2017-18 General Catalog
D-201 Porter College
(831) 459-4564
havc@ucsc.edu
http://havc.ucsc.edu
Program Statement | Course Descriptions
Faculty and Professional Interests
Professor
Harry Berger Jr., Emeritus
Martin A. Berger
Gender, race, and representation in U.S. culture
Raoul Birnbaum
Buddhist studies, especially Chinese practices from medieval times to the present; religion and visual culture in China
Elisabeth Cameron
Visual cultures of Central Africa, issues of gender, post-colonialism, iconoclasm
Carolyn Dean
Cultural histories of the native Americas and colonial Latin America
T.J. Demos
Contemporary art and visual culture, investigating in particular the diverse ways that artists and activists have negotiated crises associated with globalization, including the emerging conjunction of post-9/11 political sovereignty and statelessness, the hauntings of the colonial past, and the growing biopolitical conflicts around ecology and climate change
Jennifer A. González
Contemporary theories of visual culture, semiotics, critical museum studies, photography, public and activist art in the U.S.
John Hay, Emeritus
Virginia Jansen, Emerita
Jasper A. Rose, Emeritus
Catherine M. Soussloff, Emerita
Associate Professor
Maria Evangelatou
Medieval visual culture with emphasis on Byzantium and its periphery; manuscript illumination, Marian cult and iconography; ancient Greek and Roman visual culture; Islamic visual culture; gender studies
Donna M. Hunter, Emerita
Stacy L. Kamehiro, Patricia and Rowland Rebele Chair in History of Art and Visual Culture
Visual cultures of Oceania; colonial cultures; visual culture and identity; gender studies; museums and collecting; material culture
Boreth Ly
Visual cultures of Southeast Asia and its diaspora: religions and materiality, theory of visual narrative, the politics of cultural translation; (post) colonial and cultural studies; issues of gender, sexuality, race, and trauma
Derek Conrad Murray
Theory and criticism of contemporary art, cultural theory, identity and representation, art of the African diaspora, popular visual culture, contemporary photography, and the ethics of art history and visual studies
Assistant Professor
Albert Narath
Modern and Contemporary architecture and design; environmental history, theories of technology, historiography of modernism, anthropology and architecture
Kyle Parry
Digital media and visual culture; art, documentary, and disaster; memory and politics; archival theory and practice; data, technology, and environment; history and theory of photography; critical media practice
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Professor
Karen Bassi (Literature)
Greek and Latin literatures; gender; literary and cultural theory; pre- and early modern studies; tragedy;historiography; visual and performance studies; death studies
James Clifford (History of Consciousness, Distinguished Professor Emeritus)
Anthropology, indigeneity, museum studies, exoticism
Shelly Errington (Anthropology)
Globalization of folk art, visual and social semiotics, photography, film, the Internet and digital media, Southeast Asia, and Latin America
Kathy Foley (Theater Arts)
Southeast Asian drama and dance; puppetry
Dianne Gifford-Gonzalez (Anthropology)
Zooarchaeology, African archaeology, pastoralism, colonial New Mexico, interpretive theory, visual anthropology, emergence of pastoralism in East Africa; foodways as cultural practices in colonial encounters
David Marriott (History of Consciousness)
Literary theory, psychoanalysis, black cultural theory and philosophies of race, literary and visual cultures of modernism
Warren Sack (Film and Digital Media)
Theory and practice of digital media, software design and media theory
Shelly Stamp (Film and Digital Media)
Silent cinema, female filmmakers, film censorship, histories of moviegoing, early Hollywood
Associate Professor
Noriko Aso (History)
Japanese history, cultural studies, gender and history, race and ethnicity, colonialism, nationalism, Korean history, and popular culture
A. Hunter Bivens (Literature)
Twentieth- and 21st-century German literature and film; Marxism and critical theory; psychoanalysis; lyric poetry; literary realism; the novel
Irene Gustafson (Film and Digital Media)
Documentary theory and practice, experimental film/video, production design, gender and queer studies
Peter Limbrick (Film and Digital Media)
Postcolonial and transnational cinemas, race, gender, sexuality, queer theory
Assistant Professor
Christine Hong (Literature)
Asian American literature and cultural criticism; African American literature and black freedom studies; Korean diasporic cultural production; Pacific Rim studies; postcolonial theory; critical race theory; human rights discourse; law and literature; narrative theory; film and visual studies
Soraya Murray (Film and Digital Media)
Contemporary visual culture including: new media art, projected arts, photography, film, and electronic games; theories of art and globalization; representations of otherness; cultural studies
Revised: 09/01/17
