Lela Graybill

Lela Graybill is an Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Utah's College of Fine Arts. She specializes in eighteenth and nineteenth-century European art and visual culture, with a focus on intersections between violent spectacle, media technologies, and modern identity formation.

• Ph.D. in Art History, Stanford University

Her research explores:

• Historical relationships between fine arts and popular culture
• Visuality and display in post-revolutionary France
• Forensic visualization's role in modern truth constructs

Key publications include:

• The Visual Culture of Violence after the French Revolution (2016)
• Forensic Imagination: Art, Vision, and Modern Constructs of Truth (current project)

She teaches courses examining:

• Eighteenth and nineteenth-century art history
• Media technologies' evolution
• Visual culture's impact on selfhood