The School of Art, Art History & Design is pleased to welcome Emily Godbey, PhD and photo editor Alyssa Coppelman for back-to-back lectures on October 19th, 2017.
Emily Godby’s primary body of research deals with the ideas of tragedy and mourning. Her book project, Recreating Astonishment: Disaster’s Delightful Horrors and Terrible Pleasures, explores the commercialization of disaster through images within modern formats such as postcards, movies, and amusement parks. The work traces this modern commodity’s relationship to paintings and the history of the sublime. Godbey is also working on projects dealing with communication at the turn of the century via postcards and visuality and World’s Fairs.
Emily Godbey is Associate Professor at Iowa State University. She earned an MA and PhD from the University of Chicago, and an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design.
Alyssa Coppelman is a photo editor with 15 years of experience, including as Assistant Art Director of Harper’s Magazine and Art Researcher at the Oxford American magazine. She regularly sources images from a wide variety of artists, galleries, and collections worldwide. She has judged Critical Mass and Flash Forward contests, co-curated Slideluck Austin VI, and has been a portfolio reviewer at Photolucida, Fotofest Houston, PhotoNOLA, Filter Photo Festival, and Atlanta Celebrates Photography.
Alyssa is a regular contributor to Adobe Create and has written for WIRED Photo, Feature Shoot and Slate's photo blog, Behold. She designed Preston Gannaway's Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea and edited Sandy Carson's We Were There. Working directly with photographers, Alyssa provides oversight in editing, sequencing, design, and editorial aspects of portfolios and photobook projects.
The Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist & Scholar Lecture Series is underwritten by the Hixson-Lied Endowment, with additional support from other sources. The program brings notable artists, scholars and designers to the University of Nebraska; enhancing the education of our students and enriching the culture of the state by providing a way for the public to interact with luminaries in the fields of art, art history and design.