Jillian Lerner

Jillian Lerner is a Sessional Faculty member at the Faculty of Culture + Community, Emily Carr University of Art + Design (ECUAD). She holds a PhD from Columbia University (2006) and specializes in 19th-century visual culture, with focuses on print, photography, and commercial visual attractions. Her teaching includes courses on photography history, media theory, and modern visual culture at ECUAD and the University of British Columbia (UBC).

Her research explores intersections between art, media, and cultural history. Key works include her 2018 monograph Graphic Culture: Illustration and Artistic Enterprise in Paris, 1830–1848 (McGill-Queen’s University Press) and the 2017 article Nadar’s Signatures: Caricature, Self-portrait, Publicity in History of Photography. She is currently writing a second book on early French photography under contract with Bloomsbury Academic.

Her creative work includes the graphic novel The Peerless Prodigies of P.T. Barnum. No awards, grants, or formal advisees are listed in the provided texts.