Eric Stryker

Assistant Professor of Art History

Eric Stryker (Asst. Professor, Ph.D., Yale) is a scholar of modern and contemporary art, film, and photography, with particular interest in post-war Britain and Europe. His research focuses primarily on the use of visual media as techné in reconfigurations of social identity and human geography. Technologies of the body, visual rhetoric, and the production of space are recurrent strains in his teaching and scholarship. His current book project is titled After the Blitz: Figuration and Social Space in Reconstruction London. The recipient of the Metropolitan Museum’s Theodore Rousseau Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, Stryker co-curated the exhibition London Pop Art at the Yale Center for British Studies and was a consultant for and contributor to The Aesthetics of Terror, an exhibition at the Chelsea Museum of Art.