Faculty
Erika Doss
Professor; Chair, Department of American Studies
B.A., Ripon College, art history; Ph.D., University of Minnesota, art history and American studies
Fields: modern and contemporary American art and visual cultures, public art, memorials, national identity, affect and public emotions, visual culture of American religions, popular culture
Profile: Erika Doss is the author of numerous publications including Benton, Pollock, and the Politics of Modernism: From Regionalism to Abstract Expressionism (1991), Spirit Poles and Flying Pigs: Public Art and Cultural Democracy in American Communities (1995), Elvis Culture: Fans, Faith, and Image (1999), Looking at Life Magazine (editor, 2001), and Twentieth-Century American Art (2002). She is currently completing Memorial Mania: Self, Nation, and the Culture of Commemoration in Contemporary America. In addition to teaching courses in American, modern, and contemporary art and visual cultures, Doss is the editor of the "CultureAmerica" series at the University Press of Kansas, and is on the editorial board of Memory Studies.
Contact Information
314 O'Shaughnessy Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Phone: (574) 631-7316
Email: Erika.Doss.2@nd.edu
