Kelly Dennis
Associate Professor of Art History
Faculty Affiliate, European Studies
PhD, UCLA
kelly.dennis@uconn.edu

Kelly Dennis is Associate Professor of Art History and the History of Photography, and an affiliated faculty member in the Center for European Studies. Dr. Dennis is the author of Art / Porn: A History of Seeing and Touching (Berg Publishers, 2009), on the impact of photography on depictions of the nude and on art-historical paradigms of mimesis. She has also published numerous essays on photography in relation to performance art and to pornography. She is currently at work on two book projects: a history of the political aesthetics of Western regional landscape photography and an edited volume on theories and practices of digital art.

Her work has appeared in such books as Photography: Theoretical Snapshots, Strategies for Theory: From Marx to Madonna, Analecta Husserliana: The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research, and Solitary Pleasures: The Historical, Literary and Artistic Discourses of Autoeroticism. She has also published in Art Journal, History of Photography, and n.paradoxa; and in encyclopedias and exhibition catalogs. She has presented work throughout the US, UK, and in Mexico City, and she has been a consultant for documentary films and theater productions on sexuality and cultural representation in photography.

Dr. Dennis’s teaching areas include the History of Photography, Modern and Contemporary art and new media, and, in the graduate program, Critical Issues in Contemporary Art and the Historiography of Art History. She has taught at Northwestern University, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and at the University of California at Santa Cruz.

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