David Joselit is an American art historian who is currently Professor of Art, Film, and Visual Studies at Harvard University, and also a published author,[1] including being an editor of October.[2]
Joselit received his PhD from Harvard University.
At Yale, Joselit was a Carnegie Professor[3] and also a past Harris Lecturer at Northwestern University.[4] In 2014, Joselit was appointed as Distinguished Professor of Art History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York where he taught until 2020.[5]
In 2017, Joselit co-chaired the search committee that chose Jay Sanders as executive director of Artists Space.[6]
In addition to his teaching activities, Joselit has been serving on the advisory board of the Hauser & Wirth Institute since 2018.[7]
Infinite Regress: Marcel Duchamp 1910-1941. MIT Press, 1998.
American Art Since 1945. Thames and Hudson, 2003.
Feedback: Television Against Democracy. MIT Press, 2007.
"What to Do with Pictures." October Magazine, Fall 2011.
Signal Processing: David Joselit on Abstraction Then and Now, Artforum, Summer issue, 2011.
After Art. Princeton University Press, 2012.
Heritage and Debt: Art in Globalization. MIT Press, 2020