Erika Wolf

Erika Wolf is a visual historian with particular interest in modernism and modernity, Soviet visual culture, propaganda, and cross-cultural representation. She is recently joined the faculty in the School of Arts and Cultural Heritage of the European University at Saint Petersburg.  She has previously held academic appointments at the School of Advanced Studies at the University of Tyumen (Russia; 2018 to 2023), the Department of History and Art History at the University of Otago (New Zealand; 2003 to 2018), the Department of Art and Art History and program in Visual Culture at the University of Rochester (USA, 1999 to 2003) and the Art Department at Wayne State University (1997 to 1999). .She has contributed to exhibition projects at international art museums In 2012, the International Center of Photography granted an Infinity Award to the Reina Sofia publication "The Worker Photography Movement," an anthology to which she made extensive contributions as author, translator, and editor of the English edition. Her most recent book, "Aleksandr Zhitomirsky: Photomontage as a Weapon of World War 2 and the Cold War" was published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago in 2016. She is currently completing two book manuscripts: "Photography and Russia" (for Reaktion Press’s history of photography series Exposures) and "USSR in Construction: A Modernist Propaganda Magazine for the Stalinist Regime."