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Erika Doss

Professor of American Studies
Chairperson, Department of American Studies

Degrees

Ph.D., University of Minnesota

Research Profile

Erika Doss's primary teaching and research interests lie in the areas of modern and contemporary American art history and material/visual cultures.  She 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 writing the books Memorial Mania: Self, Nation, and the Culture of Commemoration in Contemporary America and Picturing Faith: Twentieth-Century American Artists and Issues of Religion.

Contact Information

314 O'Shaughnessy Hall
574 631 7316
doss.2@nd.edu
www.nd.edu/~edoss