Erika Doss
Erika Doss is a Professor and Chair of the Department of American Studies at University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA. Doss works in the fields of modern and contemporary American art and visual cultures, public art, memorials, national identity, affect and public emotions, visual culture of American religions, and popular culture in general.
Doss holds a B.A. in Art History from Ripon College, and a Ph.D. in Art History and American Syudies from the University of Minnesota.
Doss is the author of numerous publications including “Benton, Pollock, and the Politics of Modernism: From Regionalism to Abstract Expressionism” from 1991, ‘Spirit Poles and Flying Pigs: Public Art and Cultural Democracy in American Communities’ from 1995, ‘Elvis Culture: Fans, Faith, and Image’ from 1999, and ‘Twentieth-Century American Art’ from 2002.
She is currently completing ‘Memorial Mania: Self, Nation, and the Culture of Commemoration in Contemporary America.’ In addition to teaching courses in American, modern, and contemporary art and visual cultures, Doss is the editor of the “CultureAmerica” series at the University Press of Kansas, and is on the editorial board of Memory Studies.
