• Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1987

Research Interests:  

Kristine Stiles received her Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. Her main field of research is contemporary art with a focus on performance art and other interdisciplinary experimental art practices. Her research is especially concerned with the representations of violence, trauma, and destruction internationally. She is the recipient of Duke University's Richard K. Lublin Distinguished Award for Teaching (1994), the Fulbright (1995), and the Solomon R. Guggenheim (2000), among others fellowships. Honorary Doctorate of Arts, Darlington College of Arts & The University of Plymouth, England (2005)

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

Books

• K. Stiles. Correspondence Course, An Epistolary History of Carolee Schneemann and Her Circle.  Duke University Press, 2010 .
•  “Cloud with its Shadow: Marina Abramovic” in Marina Abramovic.  Phaidon, 2008 .
• 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 .
• 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)