Erina Duganne

Erina Duganne, Ph.D.
PROFESSOR
School of Art and Design
College of Fine Arts and Communication
512.245.3762
ed17@txstate.edu

Areas of Interest: History of Photography, Modern and Contemporary Art and Visual Culture, Race and Representation, Art and Activism

Erina Duganne is Professor of Art History in the School of Art and Design at Texas State University. Her research and writing focus mostly on contemporary art and its intersection with solidarity practices, intersectional feminisms, and documentary practices. She is author of The Self in Black and White: Race and Subjectivity in Postwar American Photography (2010), co-author of Global Photography: A Critical History (2020), and co-editor of Cold War Camera (2023). She served as co-curator for Beautiful Suffering: Photography and the Traffic in Pain (2006), Northern Triangle (2014), and Art for the Future: Artists Call and Central American Solidarities (2022), and as curator for Crossing Borders with Susan Meiselas and Borderland Collective (2024). Duganne’s forthcoming projects include Dreams of a Continent: Artists Call’s Transnational Solidarity with Central America, supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant, and Feminist Visual Solidarities and Kinships, co-edited with Genevieve Hyacinthe and Susan Richmond. She is editor of the Americas for the journal Photography & Culture and co-editor for the book series Feminist Art Histories with Rutgers University Press..