Alexander Nemerov teaches and writes about American visual culture from the eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century, focusing on painting, photography, and film.  His recent seminars include “The Visual Culture of the American Home Front, 1941-1945” and “American Art in the Democratic Age, 1830-1860.” His recent lecture courses have been a survey of American photography from the daguerreotype to 1971; a survey of American painting and sculpture from Copley to Hopper; and a survey of western art from Duccio to Basquiat.

His book on a single night’s performance of Macbeth during Abraham Lincoln’s presidency will be published in 2010 by the University of California Press.

Selected Publications
“Seeing Ghosts: The Turn of the Screw and Art History,” in What Is Research in the Visual Arts? Obsession, Archive, Encounter (Williamstown, Mass.: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2008):  13-32

“Ground Swell: Edward Hopper in 1939,” American Art 22 (Fall 2008): 50-71

“Whitman's Moment,” PN Review 176 (Summer 2007): 30-33

“Morris Louis: Court Painter of the Kennedy Era,” in Morris Louis Now: An American Master Revisited (Atlanta:  High Museum of Art, 2006)

“The Boy in Bed: The Scene of Reading in N. C. Wyeth’s Wreck of the ‘Covenant’,” Art Bulletin 88 (March 2006): 7-27

Frederic Remington and the American Civil War: A Ghost Story (Stockbridge, Mass.:  Norman Rockwell Museum, 2006)

Icons of Grief: Val Lewton’s Home Front Pictures (University of California Press, 2005)

“The Flight of Form: Auden, Bruegel, and the Turn to Abstraction in the 1940s,” Critical Inquiry 31 (Summer 2005): 780-810

“Coming Home in 1945: Reading Robert Frost and Norman Rockwell,” American Art 18 (Summer 2004): 58-79

“The Dark Cat: Arthur Putnam and a Fragment of Night,” American Art 16 (Spring 2002): 36-59

The Body of Raphaelle Peale: Still Life and Selfhood, 1812-1824 (University of California Press, 2001)

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