Senior Lecturer in American Studies, University of Hull
Dr Barnaby Haran teaches and researches American art and visual culture, with an emphasis on photography and radical cultural practices. He is interested in transnational cultural relations, especially the American and Soviet interchanges of the interwar years, which is the subject of his monograph 'Watching the Red Dawn: the American Avant-Garde and the Soviet Union (Manchester University Press, 2016). He has written and delivered papers on the photographer Margaret Bourke-White, the painter Alice Neel, and the curator Jane Heap in relation to politics, work, and gender. His current research concerns radical photography and racial injustice.
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