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Dr. Linda Steer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Visual Arts at Brock University, specializing in 20th- and 21st-century art and visual culture. She holds a BA from the University of Guelph, MA from York University, and PhD from Binghamton University. Her research examines photography’s role in avant-garde movements like Surrealism and the Beat Generation, as well as drug photography through affective and empathetic lenses. She teaches courses on art history, photography, and censorship.
Steer’s recent work focuses on drug photography’s intersection with empathy and visual suffering. Her book Appropriated Photographs in French Surrealist Periodicals, 1924-1939 (Routledge, 2017) analyzes Surrealist use of found imagery. She also hosts the Unboxing the Canon podcast for introductory art history education.
Her academic contributions include conference presentations on photography’s role in empathy, transnational photographic histories, and conceptual art. Steer previously directed Brock’s PhD Program in Interdisciplinary Humanities, demonstrating her commitment to collaborative scholarship.
