Jill Casid

University of Wisconsin-Madison

09/04/2018 - 6/02/2019

Jill H. Casid is Professor of Visual Studies in the Departments of Art History and Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Since the publication of Sowing Empire: Landscape and Colonization (Minnesota, 2005) which received the College Art Association’s Millard Meiss award, she continues to write on postcolonial, queer and feminist approaches to landscape while pursuing work on the materializing effects of imaging with Scenes of Projection: Recasting the Enlightenment Subject (Minnesota, 2015) and approaches to the global with Art History in the Wake of the Global Turn (Yale, 2014) which she co-edited with Aruna D’Souza from the Clark conference convened in 2011. As the Clark-Oakley Fellow, she will be completing Necrolandscaping, the first part of a two-book project on Form at the Edges of Life.