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 Finis DunawayAssociate Professor B.A. (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Ph.D. (Rutgers University)
Research interests: modern United States cultural and environmental history; American Studies; visual culture; mass media and the environment; landscape photography and contemporary environmental art Current research project: From the Atomic Bomb to Global Warming: The Environmental Crisis in American Visual Culture (book-length project) Select publications: “Beyond Wilderness: Robert Adams, the New Topographics, and the Aesthetics of Ecological Citizenship,” in Reframing the New Topographics, ed. John Rohrbach and Gregory Foster-Rice (Chicago: Center for American Places, forthcoming, 2010). “Cultures of Nature: Twentieth Century,” in A Companion to American Environmental History, ed. Douglas Cazaux Sackman (Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, forthcoming, 2010). “Seeing Global Warming: Contemporary Art and the Fate of the Planet,” Environmental History 14 (January 2009): 9-31. “Gas Masks, Pogo, and the Ecological Indian: Earth Day and the Visual Politics of American Environmentalism,” American Quarterly 60 (March 2008): 67-99.
“Reframing the Last Frontier: Subhankar Banerjee and the Visual Politics of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge,” American Quarterly 58 (March 2006): 159-180. An updated version of this essay is reprinted in A Keener Perception: Ecocritical Studies in American Art History, ed. Alan C. Braddock and Christoph Irmscher (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2009), 254-274. Natural Visions: The Power of Images in American Environmental Reform (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005; paperback, 2008). |
