Dr. Dora Apel

Dora Apel teaches courses on modern and contemporary European and American art and photography. She is the author of three books: Imagery of Lynching: Black Men, White Women, and the Mob (Rutgers University Press, 2004), Lynching Photographs, co-authored with Shawn Michelle Smith (University of California Press, 2007), and Memory Effects: The Holocaust and the Art of Secondary Witnessing (Rutgers University Press, 2002).

She also has written numerous articles and essays in such journals as The Art Bulletin, Art Journal, Oxford Art Journal, New German Critique, American Quarterly, Dissent, and Left History, in online journals such as OpenDemocracy and Other Voices, and for exhibition catalogs. She has contributed chapters to edited volumes, including Visual Culture and The Holocaust (Rutgers University Press, 2001), The Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies, (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2009), and What Is Radical Politics Today? (Routledge, forthcoming 2009). Her articles are reprinted in journals such as Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art (fall 2006) and edited volumes such as The Uncertain States of America Reader (Sternberg Press, 2006). She is the editor or co-editor of nine exhibition catalogs for Cranbrook Art Museum and has received awards and prizes such as the Benard L. Maas Prize for Achievement in Jewish Culture & Continuity in the Humanities , and a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend.

She is currently working on two books: You Can’t Measure the Sky and War Culture: Art, Media, and Contemporary War. She received her PhD. in Art History and PhD. Certificate in Cultural Studies from the University of Pittsburgh.

3:15 - 4:15 p.m, Tuesday and Thursday