Elspeth Brown

Elspeth Brown

Country

Canada

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 'Work: 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).

See Also

• Academics Specializing in the History of the LGBTQ Community

Further Reading/Research

• https://www.elspethbrown.org/about
• https://www.utm.utoronto.ca/historical-studies/people/brown-elspeth-h
• https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Elspeth_Brown
• http://www.torontophotographyseminar.org/
• https://www.lambdaliterary.org/reviews/07/11/work-a-queer-history-of-modeling/

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