Mark Reinhardt

Williams College

February–May 2013

Mark Reinhardt is a political theorist who teaches in the Political Science Department and American Studies Program at Williams College. His current project, Visual Politics: Theories and Spectacles, draws on art history, theory, and practice, as well as the broader field of visual studies, to bring visuality more fully into political science. His previous work on the politics of images and visual practices includes co-curating the exhibits and contributing to and co-editing the catalogues for Kara Walker: Narratives of a Negress (MIT, 2003; Rizzoli, 2007) and Beautiful Suffering: Photography and the Traffic in Pain (2007).