Stephanie Polsky

Dr Stephanie Polsky’s interdisciplinary teaching and research explores the intersections between Visual Cultures, Critical Theory, Media Studies, and Cultural Studies. It focuses on the interrelated ecologies of visual culture, art and media production, political representations, public perception, and how they relate to collective values and individual identities.

PhD Goldsmiths, University of London, in History of Ideas/Visual Cultures

Her forthcoming book is entitled Whiteness and the Visual Appropriation of Race in 1980s Britain (Routledge, 2026). Her previous books include The Photographic Invention of Whiteness: The Visual Cultures of White Atlantic Worlds (Routledge, 2023), The Dark Posthuman: Dehumanization, Technology, and the Atlantic World (Punctum Books, 2022), The End of the Future: Governing Consequence in the Age of Digital Sovereignty (Academica Press, 2019), Ignoble Displacement: Dispossessed Capital in Neo-Dickensian London (Zero Books, 2015), and Walter Benjamin’s Transit: A Destructive Tour of Modernity (Academica Press 2010). In addition to these publications, her writing has appeared in several peer-reviewed journals and critical anthologies in the US and UK, critically evaluating new technological forms of art and media for their effects on perception and imagination and their influence on race, gender and national identity.