dieser beitrag wurde verfasst in: englisch (eng/en)
name: Apel
vorname: Dora
wikidata-repräsentation: Q107347949
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biografische angaben: Associate Professor and W. Hawkins Ferry Endowed Chair in Modern and Contemporary Art History at Wayne State University, College of Fine, Performing & Communication Arts.
Dora Apel teaches courses on modern and contemporary European and American art, photography and visual culture. She is the author of three books: Memory Effects: The Holocaust and the Art of Secondary Witnessing (Rutgers University Press, 2002), Imagery of Lynching: Black Men, White Women, and the Mob (Rutgers University Press, 2004), and Lynching Photographs, co-authored with Shawn Michelle Smith (University of California Press, 2007). Her fourth book, War Culture and the Contest of Images, is forthcoming in October 2012 as part of the "New Directions in International Studies" series with Rutgers University Press. It explores questions of war, representation, and human rights and the renewed potential of the documentary image for radical critique.
Apel has also written numerous articles and essays in such journals as The Art Bulletin, Art Journal, Oxford Art Journal, New German Critique, American Quarterly, Dissent, Journal of Visual Culture, Mississippi Quarterly 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), What Is Radical Politics Today? (Routledge, 2009), and The Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies (Oxford University Press, 2011). 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) and Krzysztof Wodiczko (Black Dog Publishing, 2011). She is the editor or co-editor of ten exhibition catalogs for Cranbrook Art Museum.
She received her PhD. in Art History and PhD. Certificate in Cultural Studies from the University of Pittsburgh.