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Kristine Stiles received her Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. Her main field of research is contemporary global art with a focus on performance art and other interdisciplinary experimental art practices. Her research is especially concerned with global representations of violence, trauma, and destruction, and she has begun to work in animal studies. She is the recipient of the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Graduate Mentoring, Duke University (2011); Duke University's Richard K. Lublin Distinguished Award for Teaching (1994); the Fulbright (1995); and the Solomon R. Guggenheim (2000), among others fellowships. She received an honorary Doctorate of Arts from Darlington College of Arts and The University of Plymouth, England in 2005.

Education:

• Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley 1987

Typical Courses Taught:

• Visualst 230s, Trauma in art, lit., film & vc

• Visualst 100d, Introduction to visual culture

• Arthist 168, Exper art/ethics since 1945 Synopsis

• Visualst 181, Performance art history/theory Synopsis

• Arthist 395, Topics in art history-installation art

• Arthist 296s, Methodology of art hst Synopsis

• Arthist 383, Art and text

1. K. Stiles. Correspondence Course, An Epistolary History of Carolee Schneemann and Her Circle. Duke University Press, (2010).
2.  “Cloud with its Shadow: Marina Abramovic” in Marina Abramovic. Phaidon, (2008).
3. K. Stiles, ed.,. States of Mind: Dan & Lia Perjovschi. Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University; distributed by Duke University Press, Durham, North Carolina, (2007).
4. K. Stiles and Peter Selz, eds.,. Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists’ Writings. University of California Press, (1996). (forthcoming in an expanded new edition edited by Kristine Stiles in 2012)
5. K. Stiles. "“Foreword, Or, Unbuckling the Belt of Fluxus through Billie Maciunas’ Experiences”." Billie Maciunas, The Eve of Fluxus  (2010): ix-xvi..
6. "Art will be…2009-2034." Duke Alumni Magazine  (May, 2009).
7. "Irregular Ways of Being in Time." The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia 1860-1989. Edited by Alexandra Munroe.  (2009): 333-345.
8. "The Trinity Session." Future Species: Hybrids, Exoskel, Cybor Living Makeover Madness  (2009): 35-38.
9. "INSIDE/OUTSIDE: Balancing Between a Dusthole and Eternity." Archive  vol. 1 (2008).
10. "Come and Go." California Video  (2008).
11. "Burden of Light." Chris Burden  (2007).
12. "Teaching a Dead Hand to Draw, Kim Jones, War and Art." Kim Jones: A Retrospective  (2007).
13. "Shaved Heads and Marked Bodies: Representations From Cultures of Trauma" (1993), appeared without its 1996 "Afterword" in Bruce Lawrence and Aisha Karim, eds., On Violence: An Anthology (Durham, N.C., Duke University Press); 522-538."   (2007). (This essay was originally published in Strategie II: Peuples Mediterraneens [Paris]64/65 (1993): 95-117; it was excerpted in Dan Perjovschi Post R, for the exhibition “Media Culpa,” Bucharest, Romania, 1995; it was reprinted with a new Afterword in Jean O'Barr, Nancy Hewitt, Nancy Rosebaugh, eds., Talking Gender: Public Images, Personal Journeys, and Political Critiques (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996): 36-64; excerpted in Dan Perjovschi: Anthroprogramming (New York: Franklin Furnace, 1996); excerpted in Lusitania [New York] 6 (1994): 23-39; excerpted in German in kursiv [Linz, Austria] 2-3. (1995): 19-25; excerpted in numerous Romanian journals 1994-present.) [html]
14. "Metzger's Fierce, Poignant, and Prescient Manifestos." Rett Kopi: A Norwegian Journal of Art and Aesthetics  (2006).
15. "Performance." Critical Terms for Art History. Edited by Robert Nelson and Richard Shiff. 2nd Edition (2003): 75-97.
16. "Uncorrupted Joy: International Art Actions." Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object 1949-1979 Paul Schimmel Edition (1998): 226-238. [pdf]

Selected Invited Lectures

1. “Ever so Far at Close Shooting Range: Warhol’s Polaroid Photographs", November 11, 2010, Department of Art History at the Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.    
2. “Whose Ethics? Principles and Standards in Age of Global Art", September 23, 2010, Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, Qatar    
3. “Global Techniques of Performance”, August 2, 2010, Internationale Sommerakademie für Bildende Kunst, Salzburg, Austria.    
4. “World Trends and Contemporary Art at the Minneapolis Institute of Art”, May 06, 2010, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis.    
5. “Eastern European Performance in the 1970s and early 1980s”, April 01, 2010, Museum of Modern Art, New York City.    
6. “Mind Control and Remote Viewing, Uses and Abuses of Traumatic Dissociation”, March 03, 2010, University of California, Santa Cruz    
7. “‘Props for the Memory’, or Joseph Beuys and the Legacy of Fascism", February 11, 2010, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia.    
8. “Ever so Far at Close Shooting Range: Warhol’s Polaroid Photographs”, December 03, 2009, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University    
9. “Wild Artists and Radical Events: Writing about Experimental Art, Trauma & Artist’s Writings”, 2009, Chautauqua Lecture series, Duke University    
10. "Thinking about Artists' Writings", December 4, 2008, at tranzit.hu, Budapest, Hungary