Miriam Paeslack

Miriam Paeslack, author and editor of the forthcoming special issue of Visual Resources Urban Image Now: Photographic and Filmic Manifestations of a Subjective City Experience (Taylor & Francis 2009) has dedicated her research to different aspects of the relationship between the photographic image and urban space. She has delivered talks and has chaired panels on her interdisciplinary work at such international conferences as CAA and MSA, as well as at universities in the United States and Europe.

Miriam, who studied art history and the history of law in Germany, Italy and the United States, has written numerous articles in German and in English for exhibition catalogues (Creating a Third Space: Contemporary Photographers' Outsider's View of Asian Cities in AsiaCityStrangers, Fotohof Salzburg 2006) and academic journals and anthologies (Dis–United: Urbane Fotografie im Nachwendedeutschland, Fotogeschichte 2006, Producing Phenomenological Space: Berlin in Post-Wall Photography and Literature, Jaimey Fisher; Barbara Mennel [eds.]: Spatial Turns: Space, Place, and Mobility in German Literary and Visual Culture Amsterdam: Rodopi 2009) and has guest-edited a special issue of Visual Resources Before and After the Wall: German Photography in Discourse and Practice (Vol. XXII, Number 2, 2006).

Miriam is in the process of transforming her dissertation on 19th century urban photography into a book (Gebr. Mann Publishers, Berlin) and is working on her second book Photo Topographies: Imaging the Post-Industrial City.

Miriam currently serves as visiting assistant professor in both the undergraduate Visual Studies and Graduate Visual and Critical Studies programs. Her courses focus on modern and contemporary art, the history and theory of photography, and questions of representation, individual and collective memory, and identity.

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