Karen Fiss

Karen Fiss's current research examines nation branding, nation building and the built environment in South Africa and other emerging economies.

Her most recent book, Grand Illusion: The Cultural Politics of France and the Third Reich is forthcoming with the University of Chicago Press.

She is coeditor of Discourses: Conversations in Postmodern Art and Culture (MIT Press, 1992) and has contributed to Art, Culture and Media under the Third Reich (ed. Richard Etlin, University of Chicago Press), in addition to other scholarly publications and catalogues. Fiss also has published articles in Print Magazine, CMYK, and Metropolis magazines.

Fiss's writing and research has been supported by grants from the Graham Foundation, Getty Grant Program, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), the Fulbright, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art.