Elisabeth Friedman
- About
- Education
- Selected Research
Biography
Elisabeth Friedman received a PhD in Social & Political Thought from York University in 2008 and started working as an Assistant Professor at ISU that same year.
Current Courses
ART 495.001 Graduate Seminar In Art History
ART 395.001 Undergraduate Seminar In Art History
ART 275.001 World Arts: Visual Arts
ART 275.003 World Arts: Visual Arts
Teaching Interests & Areas
Dr. Friedman teaches widely in contemporary art and visual culture, offering both introductory and advanced courses on the modern and contemporary art of Latin America; art of the postmodern era; and seminars in global contemporary art and contemporary art in Palestine. She also teaches combined undergraduate/graduate seminars on the History and Theory of the Museum and on Critical and Visual Theory.
Research Interests & Areas
Dr. Friedman's research addresses the relationship among artworks, affects and contemporary theorizations of the archive. She wrote her PhD dissertation on contemporary artistic responses to the Holocaust, titled “Aesthetics of Incommensurability: Artworks, Archives and the Dilemmas of Holocaust Representation." Dr. Friedman now researches and writes about contemporary art in Palestine; she was awarded a National Endowement for the Humanities Fellowship in 2016-2017 to support extended travel in Palestine for this research. She has published two book chapters, eight refereed articles in international journals, and has contributed essays to exhibit catalogs. Dr. Friedman has delivered over thirty conference presentations and invited talks on her research.