Faculty
David Joselit
djoselit@fas.harvard.eduArthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Art, Film, and Visual Studies
Chair for Art, Film, and Visual Studies(AFVS)
Joselit began his career as a curator at The ICA in Boston from 1983-1989. After receiving his PhD from Harvard in 1995, he has taught at the University of California, Irvine, and Yale University where he was Department Chair of History of Art from 2006...
Lucien Castaing-Taylor
John Cowles Professor of Art and Anthropology
Director, Sensory Ethnography Lab (SEL)
Castaing-Taylor is an anthropologist whose work conjugates art's negative capability with an ethnographic attachment to the flux of life and an engagement with the pressing ecological and political challenges of our day. His works include In and Out of...
Giuliana Bruno
Emmet Blakeney Gleason Research Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies
Professor Bruno is internationally known for her research on the intersections of the visual arts, architecture, the environement, and media. She has published seven award-winning books and two hundred essays, translated in over fifteen languages. Her...
Katarina Burin
Associate Senior Lecturer on Art, Film, and Visual Studies
Katarina Burin’s recent solo projects include exhibitions at Kunstverein Langenhagen, Akademie Schloss Solitude (Stuttgart) and P! (New York), along with gallery exhibitions at Ratio 3 (San Francisco), M29 Richter & Brückner (Cologne) and Lucile Corty...
Laura Frahm
Professor of Art, Film, and Visual Studies
Director of Graduate Studies
Frahm's work explores film and media through the lens of architecture, design, spatial theory, ecological thought, and process philosophy. She has published numerous articles as well as three books: Beyond Space: Cinematic Topologies of the Urban (2010)...
Haden Guest
Director, Harvard Film Archive
Senior Lecturer on Art, Film, and Visual Studies (AFVS)
Haden Guest is Director of the Harvard Film Archive where he curates the HFA cinematheque and its motion picture, manuscript and photographic collections.He has curated film programs for the Viennale, the Oberhausen Film Festival and the Gulbenkian...
Sharon Harper
Emmet Blakeney Gleason Professor of Art, Film, and Visual Studies
Sharon Harper’s work explores technology and perception. Her experimental work uses photography and video to create poetic connections between ourselves and the living environment. Harper’s work is in permanent collections at the Museum of Modern Art, New...
Sky Hopinka
Assistant Professor
Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians) was born and raised in Ferndale, Washington and spent a number of years in Palm Springs and Riverside, California, Portland, Oregon, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In Portland he studied and taught...
Carrie Lambert-Beatty
Professor of Art, Film, and Visual Studies, and of History of Art and Architecture
Carrie Lambert-Beatty is a contemporary art historian. She is the author of the award-winning book Being Watched: Yvonne Rainer and the 1960s (MIT Press, 2008) and the essay "Make Believe: Parafiction and Plausibility," among other writings. Her current...
Annette Lemieux
Senior Lecturer on Art, Film, and Visual Studies
Lemieux studied at the Hartford Art School, University of Hartford where she received her BFA in 1980. Her numerous solo exhibitions include the Matrix Gallery, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford; the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; the Stichting De...
Ruth Lingford
Senior Lecturer on Art, Film, and Visual Studies
Lingford has been making short animated films since studying fine art and art history at Middlesex (1987–1990) and animation at the MA level at the Royal College of Art (1990–92). Her films have been broadcast by Channel 4 in the UK, and have won many...
Julie Mallozzi
juliemallozzi@fas.harvard.eduLecturer on Art, Film, and Visual Studies
Administrative Director of the Film Study Center
Julie Mallozzi is a documentary filmmaker whose work explores the transformative power of traditional cultural practices. Her current project Entangled Minds is a journey into the minds of four people seeking relief from their pain through treatments that...
