Graduate Programs
Dr. Karen Engle
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Alberta 2005
Theory and Visual Culture
Dr. Engle is interested in the intersections of visual culture and social theory with American history and memory. Her first book, Seeing Ghosts: 9/11 and the Visual Imagination, traces the historical echoes found in imagery that resonated during the initial aftermath of the World Trade Center attacks. It explores how the work of mourning was conceptualized at the national level, and how certain images were deemed unfit for purposes of commemoration while others were held up as icons of American strength.
Her current research operates on two fronts:
1) the war photography of Lee Miller - the first woman accredited as a front line journalist during World War II; and
2) the built environment of Windsor/Detroit and its affective histories with a particular focus on photography and sculpture.
Dr. Engle is interested in supervising graduate student projects on modernity and visual cultures
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