Erika Do

Biographic Data

ID93874
NAMEErika Do
GIVEN NAMESErika
FAMILY NAMEDo
SIGNATUREDO E
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Notre Dame
ORCID0000-0002-7419-0279
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS48
TOTAL CITATIONS65
AUTHOR COUNT48
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1982
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX4

  • Critique and Engagement in America’s National Parks

    Erika Do, Erika DossARTICLEArt Journal2024

    America’s national parks play major roles in shaping widely shared beliefs about nature, public space, national identity, and national values. Yet those beliefs, like the parks themselves, are plagued by contradictions. Touted as America’s “best idea,” the parks originated in the dispossession of indigenous lands. Visited by more than 300 million people a year, the parks are underfunded and under threat. Invented to preserve and protect American …

  • Thank You to Reviewers

    Open AccessTarik Abou-Chadi, Kavi Abraham et al.ARTICLEGlobal Studies Quarterly2024

  • Authenticity, Memory, and Materiality: Disgraced Memorials and Issues of Permanence

    Open AccessErika Do, Erika DossARTICLEAmerican Quarterly2021

    Authenticity, Memory, and Materiality: Disgraced Memorials and Issues of Permanence Erika Doss (bio) What role does authenticity play in the judgment, value, and preservation of visual and material culture? Recent years have seen an uptick in the vandalism and the removal of “disgraced” memorials in the United States, most notably statues and other kinds of public art that some Americans find offensive, oppressive, and inappropriate. These includ…

  • American Art Matters: Rethinking Materiality in American Studies

    Open AccessErika Do, Erika DossARTICLEOpen Cultural Studies2019

    The “material” turn has steadily gained currency in cultural studies and the humanities, with scholars increasingly attentive to theorising things and examining their presence, power, and meaning in any number of fields and disciplines. This essay stems from the keynote lecture given at the conference MatteReality: Historical Trajectories and Conceptual Futures for Material Culture Studies , held on March 23, 2017, at the Freiburg Institute for A…

  • Note from the JTAS Editors

    Open AccessNina Morgan, Erika DoARTICLEJournal of Transnational American…2019

  • Grant Wood’s Queer Parody: American Humor during the Great Depression

    Erika Do, Erika DossARTICLEWinterthur Portfolio2018

    Many of American artist Grant Wood’s best known paintings are humorous, even irreverent. Honed in theater, interior decoration, and commercial art, Wood’s camp sensibility of artifice, exaggeration, and comic subversion intentionally disturbed normative assumptions about taste, value, nature, and, in particular, gender and sexuality—what Moe Meyer called “queer parody.” Wood’s humor-inflected paintings aimed at enlightening viewers about the fund…

  • The Elephant in the Room: Prejudicial Public Art and Cultural Vandalism

    Erika DoARTICLEde arte2018Cited by: 1References: 11

    Prejudicial public art is a visible yet often ignored social and cultural problem. Recently, however, it has commanded popular and mass media attention as increasing numbers of publics around the world have begun to grapple with its meanings and messages and take the history that it embodies to task. In September 2017, for example, New York mayor, Bill de Blasio, appointed a commission to advise him about “how the City should address monuments se…

  • Commemorating Disaster and Disobedience: National Park Service Initiatives in the 21st Century

    Open AccessErika Do, Erika DossARTICLESocial Science Quarterly2016References: 8

    Objective This essay explores the ways in which memorial culture reflects contemporary attitudes about the United States and its history. Method An examination of the role of the U.S. National Park Service, which manages and maintains many American memorials, illustrates the evolving relationship between official memory and history. Memorials to dissent and disaster are considered as part of an emerging trend in American memorial culture in which…

  • Hopper’s Cool: Modernism and Emotional Restraint

    Erika Do, Erika DossARTICLEAmerican Art2015

    Long recognized as a painter of “modern life,” Edward Hopper remains one of America’s most celebrated artists. This essay argues that Hopper’s enduring popularity relates to his visualization of modern American feeling, and in particular, his navigation of an “emotional regime” that governed twentieth-century American lives. Hopper’s brooding and restrained pictures personify an emotional style that surfaced around 1900, flourished through the 19…

  • Jewish artists and the bible in twentieth-century america, Baskind, Samantha

    Erika DoARTICLEMaterial Religion2015

    "Jewish artists and the bible in twentieth-century america, Baskind, Samantha." Material Religion, 11(1), pp. 119–120

  • De Oppresso Liber and Reflecting Absence: Ground Zero Memorials and the War on Terror

    Open AccessErika Do, Erika DossARTICLEAmerican Quarterly2013References: 1

    De Oppresso Liber and Reflecting Absence: Ground Zero Memorials and the War on Terror Erika Doss (bio) New York’s ninety-second Veteran’s Day Parade on November 11, 2011, featured a sixteen-foot-tall, five-thousand-pound bronze statue of a Special Ops soldier riding an Afghan pony. Driven on a float down the middle of Fifth Avenue, fronted by uniformed military personnel and members of the city’s police and fire departments, the huge statue—model…

  • Augustus Saint-Gaudens’s The Puritan: Founders’ Statues, Indian Wars, Contested Public Spaces, and Anger’s Memory in Springfield, Massachusetts

    Erika Do, Erika DossARTICLEWinterthur Portfolio2012

    Dedicated in 1887 in Springfield, Massachusetts, The Puritan is a large bronze statue of a menacing figure clutching a huge Bible. Commissioned as a memorial to Deacon Samuel Chapin (1595–1675), The Puritan was designed by Augustus Saint-Gaudens and erected in an urban park surrounded by factories and tenements. After repeated vandalism, it was moved “uphill” to Springfield’s cultural quadrangle in 1899. Contextualizing The Puritan in geographic …

  • Makes Me Laugh, Makes Me Cry: Feelings and American Art

    Erika Do, Erika DossARTICLEAmerican Art2011

  • Disputation over sacred space in contemporary america

    Erika DoARTICLEMaterial Religion2011

    (2011). Disputation over sacred space in contemporary america. Material Religion: Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 269-271

  • Memorial Mania: Public Feeling in America

    Erika Do, Erika DossBOOKMemorial Mania2010

  • Affect

    Erika Do, Erika DossARTICLEAmerican Art2009

  • War, memory, and the public mediation of affect: The National World War II Memorial and American imperialism

    Open AccessErika DoARTICLEMemory Studies2008Cited by: 7References: 13

    Contemporary America is deeply engaged in `memorial mania', a national obsession with issues of memory and history and an urgent, excessive desire to secure those issues with various forms of public commemoration. War memorials are especially flourishing, seen locally in small towns and larger cities, and nationally in the dedication of the National World War II Memorial in Washington, DC in 2004; indeed, memorials to World War II's `greatest gen…

  • The Emotional Life of Contemporary Public Memorials: Towards a Theory of Temporary Memorials

    Open AccessErika Do, Erika DossBOOKThe Emotional Life Of Contemporary…2008Cited by: 32References: 3

    From the commemoration of September 11 to the Holocaust memorial in Berlin, recent decades have witnessed a substantial increase in the number of new public memorials built in both Europe and the United States. This volume considers the contemporary explosion of public commemoration in terms of changed cultural and social practices of mourning, memory, and public feeling. Positing memorials as the physical and visual embodiment of our affective r…

  • Duane Hanson's Woman Eating

    Erika Do, Erika DossARTICLEAmerican Art2006

  • Spontaneous Memorials and Contemporary Modes of Mourning in America

    Erika DoARTICLEMaterial Religion2006Cited by: 6References: 21

    Who, and what, is worth mourning in the United States of America? Who and what “counts” in the American national imaginary and is, hence, deemed especially worthy of mourning and memorialization? Increasingly widespread commemorative practices such as roadside shrines, pregnancy loss memorials, organ donor memorials, and spontaneous memorials erected at sites of tragic and traumatic death—such as the shootings at Columbine High School in 1999—sug…

  • Between Modernity and “the Real Thing”: Maynard Dixon's Mural for the Bureau of Indian Affairs

    Erika Do, Erika DossARTICLEAmerican Art2004

    In February 1937, American artist Maynard Dixon was invited by the Treasury Department’s Section of Painting and Sculpture, a New Deal arts program, to paint a two‐panel mural for the new Department of the Interior Building in Washington, D.C. The assigned subject matter for the mural was ”themes taken from the activities” of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), a government agency headquartered in the Interior Building. In examining the multiple …

  • Death, art and memory in the public sphere: The visual and material culture of grief in contemporary America

    Erika Do, Erika DossARTICLEMortality2002

    This paper explores the commemorative dimensions of death, dying and bereavement in contemporary America as embodied in material and visual culture. Focusing in particular on the Oklahoma City National Memorial (dedicated in 2000 and now managed by the US National Park Service) and on temporary shrines constructed near Columbine High School in Littleton, CO (the site of a murderous rampage in 1999), it asks how and why such commemoration is organ…

  • Sharrer's "Tribute to the American Working People": Issues of Labor and Leisure in Post-World War II American Art

    Erika Do, Erika DossARTICLEAmerican Art2002

  • Thomas Dublin and Melissa Doak, Miner's Son, Miner's Photographer: The Life and Work of George Harvan, Journal for MultiMedia History 3

    Erika Do, Erika DossARTICLELabor History2002

  • Liberace: An American Boy

    Erika Do, Erika Doss et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History2001

    Journal Article Liberace: An American Boy. By Darden Asbury Pyron. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. xviii, 494 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-226-68667-1.) Get access Erika Doss Erika Doss University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 2, September 2001, Pages 733–734, https://doi.org/10.2307/2675244 Published: 01 September 2001