New Books in Nazar

Ariella Aïsha Azoulay is Professor of Modern Culture and Media and the Department of Comparative Literature at Brown University. Her books include: The Jewelers of the Ummah; Potential History – Unlearning Imperialism; Civil Imagination: The Political Ontology of Photography; The Civil Contract of Photography; Aïm Deüelle Lüski and Horizontal Photography; and The One State Condition: Occupation and Democracy between the Sea and the River. Among her potential histories, archives and curatorial work were shown recently including: The Natural History of Rape at the Berlin Biennal in 2022; Errata at Tapiès Foundation and HKW in Berlin in 2019 and 2020.

Kimberly Juanita Brown serves as the inaugural director of the Institute for Black Intellectual and Cultural Life. She is an interdisciplinary scholar working at the intersection of contemporary literatures of the Black diaspora and visual culture studies. She is the author of The Repeating Body: Slavery’s Visual Resonance in the Contemporary (Duke University Press, 2015), and Mortevivum: Photography and the Politics of the Visual (MIT Press, 2024). Brown is currently completing her third book, Black Elegies, about the art of mourning in contemporary cultural productions. She is the founder and convener of the Dark Room: Race and Visual Culture Studies Seminar. The Dark Room is a working group of women of color scholars, artists, and curators whose work examines critical race theory and visual culture studies. Brown is an associate professor in the Department of English and Creative Writing.