Erika Wolf
Associate Professor
History
Otago University
New Zealand
Biography
1999: PhD (History of Art) University of Michigan 1996: AM (Russian & Eastern European Studies) University of Michigan 1990: AM (History of Art) University of Michigan 1985: AB (Cum Laude) (Sociology) Princeton University
Research Interest
Associate Professor's Wolf's primary field of research is Soviet art and visual culture. She is presently completing the manuscript for USSR in Construction: A Modernist Propaganda Magazine for the Stalinist Regime. This book examines the persistence, modification and transformation of Soviet avant-garde representational practices in light of the emerging Stalinist aesthetic of Socialist Realism in the 1930s through a study of the Soviet photographic magazine USSR in Construction. Other areas of research interest include: Soviet photographic debates of the 1920s and 1930s, the visual culture of Soviet prison camps, Soviet writer-photographers, the proletarian photography movement, and Soviet cultural exchange. Since arriving at Otago, she has also begun to pursue research on both historic and contemporary New Zealand photography.
Publications
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Wolf, E. (2012). Koretsky: The Soviet photo poster: 1930-1984. New York: New Press, 448p.
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Wolf, E. (2016). Aleksandr Zhitomirsky: Photomontage as a weapon of World War II and the Cold War. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 368p.
