Research

• The genealogy of visuality; the relationship of authority and representation; the visual production of subjectivities.
• Cinema and the ‘War on Terror’.
• Horror and terror in cinema; spectatorship and violence.
• The aesthetic of the sublime from the Enlightenment to postmodernity.
• Ethics and representation, trauma and mourning in post-Holocaust culture.
• Theories of photography.
• 'Post-photographic' painting.