Elspeth Brown
From QueerBio.com
Country
Canada
Birth - Death
Occupation
Academic
Description
Associate Professor of Historical Studies at the University of Toronto. Research concerns three main areas: the cultural history of capitalism; the history and theory of photography; and queer and trans history and theory in the US and Canada. Author of The 'Corporate Eye: Photography and the Rationalization of American Commercial Culture, 1884-1929' (2005) and 'Sexual Capital: A Queer History of Modeling, 1909-1983' (2019), as well as co-editor of 'Cultures of Commerce: Representation and American Business Culture, 1877-1960' (2006) and 'Feeling Photography' (2014). Co-founder, The Toronto Photography Seminar (2004).
