Miriam Paeslack
Miriam Paeslack dedicates her research to different aspects of the relationships between the photographic image and urban space. She has delivered talks and has chaired panels on her interdisciplinary work at international conferences such as CAA and MSA, and at universities in the US and Europe.
Paeslack studied Art History and the History of Law in Germany, Italy and the United States, and received her PhD at Freiburg University. She has written numerous articles in German and in English publications focusing on contemporary as well as 19th and 20th century urban imagery. Her first book on Berlin photography of the Second Empire, Imaging a Nation. Berlin Photography in the Wilhelmine Era, is forthcoming in German in 2010.
Paeslack will be teaching in the Arts Management Program in the spring of 2010. She also teaches as Adjunct Professor in the Visual Studies Department. Before coming to Buffalo, she was Visiting Assistant Professor in Visual Studies at the California College of the Arts in Oakland, California, and Assistant Professor at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig, Germany. Her courses focus on modern and contemporary art, the history and theory of photography, and questions of representation, individual and collective memory, and identity.