Erika Lee Doss is an American educator and author.[1] She currently holds the EODIAH Distinguished Chair in Art History Professorship in The Edith O'Donnell Institute of Art History at the University of Texas at Dallas.[2] Formerly, she was a professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder and the University of Notre Dame.[3]
Doss received her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1983,[4] and "has held fellowships at the Stanford Humanities Center, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Research Center, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies, and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art".[3]
In her 1999 book, Elvis Culture: Fans, Faith, and Image, Doss examines the enduring popularity of singer Elvis Presley, and his rule-breaking dynamics.[5] [6] [7] Spiritual Moderns: Twentieth-Century American Artists and Religion (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023) was listed as one of top 20 Art Books of 2023 by Hyperallergic.[8]