Erina Duganne

Erina Duganne, Ph.D.
ASSOCIATE 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 Associate Professor of Art History in the School of Art and Design at Texas State University. She teaches courses on modern and contemporary art, photography, and visual culture. Duganne is the author of The Self in Black and White: Race and Subjectivity in Postwar American Photography (University Press of New England, 2010), an examination of the historically specific ways in which the self has been experienced, conceptualized, and reflected in relation to photographic representations of blackness in postwar America. She also served as a co-curator, a co-editor, and an essayist for the exhibition and accompanying publication, Beautiful Suffering: Photography and the Traffic in Pain (University of Chicago Press, 2007). She worked on this project as a Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in the History of Photography at Williams College. Her current book-length project, tentatively entitled Central America as “Living” History: Photography and Social Change at the End of the Cold War, takes up the difficult question of what contribution photography has made to social change through an examination of images documenting events from the Central American civil wars---El Salvador and Nicaragua, more specifically---that circulated in the United States in the 1980s. Duganne received a Marlene Nathan Meyerson Photography Fellowship from the Harry Ransom Center in support of this project. Duganne has published essays, interviews, and reviews in Photography & Culture, English Language Notes, exposure, Mirror of Race, AHAA.reviews, caa.reviews, African American Review, Visual Resources, and Grove Art Online. In 2009-2010, she was awarded a Fulbright Junior Lectureship at the University of Potsdam where she taught courses on American art, photography, and popular culture.