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Erin Pauwels is the Terra Foundation Visiting Professor of American Art (2024–25) in the Department of History of Art at the University of Oxford, concurrently holding her position as Associate Professor of American Art at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University. During her Oxford appointment, she is also a Visiting Fellow at Worcester College. She earned her PhD in Art History and American Studies from Indiana University and previously taught at the University of Southern California.
Her research specializes in the history of photography, media theory, and ecocriticism, with a cross-disciplinary focus on connections between theater and visual arts. She investigates how environmental themes and social contexts shape artistic production across North America. Current work examines 19th and early 20th-century studio portraits of Native Americans, analyzing their staging and cultural circulation.
Pauwels' publications center on American visual culture with emphases on photography's societal impact, celebrity imagery, and ecological perspectives in art. Her 2023 book explores mass media's transformative effect on artistic definitions during industrialization.
Her Oxford teaching includes an undergraduate survey spanning American art from the 17th century to present, and a Master's course analyzing art and environmental thought across the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Caribbean. Her professorship is funded by the Terra Foundation for American Art, and she will deliver the Terra Lectures at Worcester College in 2025.
