Jill H. Casid
Position title: Professor of Gender & Women's Studies, and Art History

Jill H. Casid is Professor of Visual Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she founded and served as the first director of the Center for Visual Cultures. A historian, theorist, and practicing artist, her contributions to the transdisciplinary field of visual studies include her monographs Sowing Empire: Landscape and Colonization (Minnesota, 2006) which received the College Art Association’s Millard Meiss award and Scenes of Projection: Recasting the Enlightenment Subject (Minnesota, 2015) and the edited collection Art History in the Wake of the Global Turn (Yale, 2014) co-edited with Aruna D’Souza. Recent articles have appeared in the L.A. Review of Books, Women and Performance, TDR, and the Journal of Visual Culture and she has contributed essays to, among other volumes, Environmental Aesthetics after Landscape (Diaphanes/Johns Hopkins, forthcoming), Migration and the Contemporary Mediterranean (Oxford, forthcoming), The Philosophical Salon (Open Humanities Press, 2017), Architecture is All Over (Columbia, 2017), The Princeton Companion to Atlantic History (Princeton, 2015), A Handbook to the Reception of Ovid (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014), Environmental Criticism for the Twenty-First Century (Routledge, 2011), and Landscape Theory (Routledge, 2007). She is currently completing the two-book project Form at the Edges of Life. She serves on the governing board of the International Association of Visual Culture and on the editorial board of the Journal of Visual Culture. She has been the recipient of numerous awards for her research and teaching, including the Chancellor’s Inclusive Excellence in Teaching Award (2015), the Vilas Research Investigator Award (2014), the H. I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship (2011), and the Hamel Faculty Fellowship (2009).
Publications by Jill H. Casid
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Casid, J. H. Scenes of Projection. University of Minnesota Press, 2014.
Theorizing vision and power with the histories of psychoanalysis, media, scientific method, and colonization, Scenes of Projection poaches the prized instruments at the heart of the so-called scientific revolution. It demonstrates that the scene of projection is neither a static diagram of power nor a fixed architecture but rather a pedagogical setup that operates as an influencing machine of persistent training.
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