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# Lisa E. Bloom

Author of many feminist books and articles in art history, visual culture, cultural studies, and media and film studies.

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- [My Book Appears on the Website for the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment](https://www.lisaebloom.com/279/) - My book, Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics, Artists Reimagine the Arctic and Antarctic, appears on the website for the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE).
- [Take a look at the wonderful interview about climate change and art with me, Thyrza Goodeve and El Glasberg in Art Journal.](https://www.lisaebloom.com/take-a-look-at-the-wonderful-interview-that-just-came-out-about-climate-change-and-art-with-me-thyrza-goodeve-and-el-glasberg-in-art-journal/) - The conversation is focused on my new book Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics (Duke University Press, 2022) https://artjournal.collegeart.org/?p=17743
- [Online book talk with the installation artist Judit Hersko and the environmental humanities scholar Cheryl J. Fish,  Nov. 15, 2025](https://www.lisaebloom.com/online-book-talk-with-the-installation-artist-judit-hersko-nov-15/) - I am excited that I gave an online book talk with the installation artist Judit Hersko who is one of the artists I write about in my book and the environmental humanities scholar Cheryl J. Fish on November 15th! It was for a month-long environmental humanities initiative in Helsinki, Finland. (Click poster at left to
- [Reviews and Quotes: More Book Reviews Addressing a Wider International Audience](https://www.lisaebloom.com/more-reviews-of-my-new-book/) - The book is getting some more international attention thanks in part to Anne Hemendrias’ review in Germany, Alice Oates review in the UK, Barbara Opar’s review in North America, Elizabeth Berman’s review in the UK (See PDF since the link reaches a paywall and doesn’t show the entire review), and Jean Bundy’s book review for the Association
- [This is big news! The open access version of my book is available for download](https://www.lisaebloom.com/2795-2/) - See Duke University Press's Read site: https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/3063/Climate-Change-and-the-New-Polar-AestheticsArtists
- [I have an article in a wonderful anthology that offers a wide range of perspectives on art since 1980.](https://www.lisaebloom.com/i-have-a-new-article-that-just-came-out-in-a-wonderful-new-anthology-that-offers-a-wide-range-of-perspectives-on-art-since-1980/) - “Envisioning a More Just Future: Feminist Activist Art, Climate Change, and the Anthropocene.” A Companion to Contemporary Art in a Global Framework. Editors, Amelia Jones and Jane Chin Davidson; A Companion to Contemporary Art in a Global Framework. London: Wiley Blackwell (2023), pp. 227-238 View table of contents and introduction Purchase the E-Book at just $36.99
- [See the foreword that I wrote for this exciting book](https://www.lisaebloom.com/see-the-foreword-that-i-wrote-for-an-exciting-new-book-that-came-out-recently/) - See "Foreword.” Communicating Ice Through Popular Art and Aesthetics, ed. Anne Hemkendreis and Anna-Sophie Jurgens. Palgrave Macmillan, 2024, p. v. Download pdf
- [Pratt Institute in Brooklyn on Sunday, April 21st, 2025](https://www.lisaebloom.com/join-me-at-pratt-institute-in-brooklyn-on-sunday-april-21st-from-530-700-pm/) - My talk, Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics: Artists Reimagine the Arctic and Antarctic. was presented from my book, with a small reception that followed. Free and open to the public.
- [Honored to share that my book Gender on Ice: American Ideologies of Polar Expeditions (1993) was featured in Isaac Julien’s exhibition Isaac Julien: I Dream a World at the de Young Museum (April 12–July 13)](https://www.lisaebloom.com/honored-to-share-that-my-book-gender-on-ice-american-ideologies-of-polar-expeditions-1993-is-featured-in-isaac-juliens-new-exhibition-isaac-julien-i-dream-a-world/) - Included as one of the influences on his powerful film True North, the book appeared in a display case alongside works exploring race, sexuality, and polar exploration. Look out for my catalogue essay:“Matthew Henson and the Contaminated Sublime: Race, Sexuality, and Resistance in Isaac Julien’s True North.” This was Julien’s first US retrospective and his largest to
- [Talk Recording Available](https://www.lisaebloom.com/new-talk-recording-available/) - I'm pleased to announce that the recording of my book talk at Pratt Institute (April 21, 2025) is available online. In this talk, I explore how artists are responding to climate change, ecology, and social justice, and how these intersections are reshaping contemporary art and cultural narratives. Thank you to Pratt Institute for hosting the
- [In conversation with Ohan Breiding — MASS MoCA](https://www.lisaebloom.com/in-conversation-with-ohan-breiding-mass-moca/) - Saturday, Nov 8, 2025 (Club B10) An in-conversation about Belly of a Glacier, an experimental film and photographic installation reflecting on practices of care and mourning around the soon-to-disappear Rhône Glacier. Friends from Boston, the Berkshires, and beyond were welcomed. https://massmoca.org/.../in-conversation-ohan-breiding.../
- [I wanted to share an interview I did for the Trinity College alumni magazine (The Trinity Reporter) for the Spring 2025 issue](https://www.lisaebloom.com/interview-i-did-for-the-trinity-college-alumni-magazine-spring-2025-issue-that-just-came-out/) - I was an undergraduate there in the late 1970s—Trinity is a small liberal arts college in Hartford, Connecticut—and it was meaningful to reflect on how my time there helped shape the work I do today on climate change, feminist art, and visual culture. Trinity website: trincollreporter.online/Bloom View pdf of my bio in Trinity Reporter Spring 2025
- [“A View from the Future: Feminist Artists, Scholars, and Activists Turn to Science Fiction to Address the Climate Crisis.”](https://www.lisaebloom.com/a-view-from-the-future-feminist-artists-scholars-and-activists-turn-to-science-fiction-to-address-the-climate-crisis/) - Explores how feminist artists, writers, and filmmakers use science fiction, climate justice, and environmental activism to imagine equitable futures beyond the climate crisis.
- [Matthew Henson and the Contaminated Sublime: Race, Sexuality, and Resistance in Isaac Julien’s True North](https://www.lisaebloom.com/matthew-henson-and-the-contaminated-sublime-race-sexuality-and-resistance-in-isaac-juliens-true-north/) - An analysis of Isaac Julien's True North exploring Matthew Henson, Black exploration, Arctic visual culture, colonialism, and climate change.
- [“Envisioning a More Just Future: Feminist Activist Art, Climate Change, and the Anthropocene.”](https://www.lisaebloom.com/i-have-a-new-article-that-just-came-out/) - Editors, Amelia Jones and Jane Chin Davidson; A Companion to Contemporary Art in a Global Framework. London: Wiley Blackwell (2023), pp. 227-238 View the table of contents and introduction For purchase. E-Book is available at just $36.99
- [Eleanor Antin’s Subversive Feminist Art](https://www.lisaebloom.com/eleanor-antins-subversive-feminist-art-my-article-is-included-in-the-catalogue-eleanor-antin-works-1965-2017-for-the-2025-exhibition-at-mudam-luxembourg/) - An analysis of Eleanor Antin's conceptual and feminist art exploring Jewish identity, performance, gender, diaspora, and memory.
- [“Jewish ‘Ghosts’: Judit Hersko and Susan Hiller and the Feminist Intersectional Art of Post-Holocaust Memory](https://www.lisaebloom.com/2969-2/) - In open access for a special issue of Arts13, “New Articulations of Identity in Contemporary Aesthetics,” eds., Stacy Schwartz, and Dereck Conrad Murray. Open access, 2024: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/13/2/50
- [Matthew Henson and the Contaminated Sublime: Race, Sexuality, and Resistance in Isaac Julien’s True North](https://www.lisaebloom.com/matthew-henson-and-the-contaminated-sublime-race-sexuality-and-resistance-in-isaac-juliens-true-north-2/) - Included in the forthcoming catalogue Isaac Julien: I Dream a World (Thames & Hudson), publication date November 4, 2025. Catalogue info: https://www.thamesandhudsonusa.com/books/isaac-julien-i-dream-a-world-softcover#gallery-1 Download PDF
- [Research is a verb. What are you interested in learning about?](https://www.lisaebloom.com/research-is-a-verb-what-are-you-interested-in-learning-about/) - Pick Lisa's Brain Research is a verb. What are you interested in learning about? Anthropocene Gender on Ice Jewish Identities Visual Culture Ghosts of Ethnicity Planetary Precarity Extreme Oil Invisible Landscapes Subversive feminist art Arctic & Antarctic Lisa Bloom's essays and articles have appeared in The Scholar and the Feminist, n. paradoxa, Configurations; exhibition
- [New Interview Recording Available Lisa E. Bloom in Conversation with Kim Anno](https://www.lisaebloom.com/new-interview-recording-available-lisa-e-bloom-in-conversation-with-kim-anno/) - I'm pleased to announce that the recording of my recent interview with artist Kim Anno, held on July 7, 2025, as part of the San Francisco Art Institute Artists Alumni Series, is now available online. In this wide-ranging conversation, Kim Anno reflects on her trajectory as an artist working at the intersection of climate change,
- [“At Memory’s Edge: Climate Trauma in the Arctic Through Film.”](https://www.lisaebloom.com/at-memorys-edge-climate-trauma-in-the-arctic-through-film-2/) - Eds., Subhankar Banerjee, TJ Demos and Emily Eliza Scott. The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Art, Visual Culture and Climate Change. Routledge, London, 2021, 194-203. It is out in paperback
- [Excited to share this wonderful review of my book “Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics: Artists Reimagine the Arctic and Antarctic” in the College Art Association’s online Book Review section!](https://www.lisaebloom.com/wonderful-new-review-of-my-book/) - “An aesthetic antidote to older ideologies, imagining the poles otherwise... [The book] offers politically thoughtful perspectives from feminist, Black, and Indigenous artists like Anne Noble, Isaac Julien, and Zacharias Kunuk.” – Robert Bailey & Pete Froslie Download pdf
- [See my recent keynote talk on “Ancient Glaciers and Melting Ice: International Perspectives on the New Polar Aesthetics”](https://www.lisaebloom.com/see-my-recent-keynote-talk-on-ancient-glaciers-and-melting-ice-international-perspectives-on-the-new-polar-aesthetics/) - For a panel with Claudia Kappenburg and artists Ebba Stibbon and Xavier Ribas, Towner Gallery, Eastbourne, UK, June 5, 2024. See recording at: https://we.tl/t-166Ph50gq6
- [Review by Jenna M. Coughlin, Scandinavian Studies](https://www.lisaebloom.com/review-by-jenna-m-coughlin-scandinavian-studies/) - Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics: Artists Reimagine the Arctic and Antarctic by Lisa E. Bloom (review) Jenna M. Coughlin Scandinavian Studies, Volume 95, Number 4, Winter 2023, pp. 540-543 (Article) Published by University of Illinois Press Download pdf
- [“Countering colonial nostalgia and heroic masculinity in the age of accelerated climate change: The Arctic artworks of Katja Aglert and Isaac Julien”](https://www.lisaebloom.com/countering-colonial-nostalgia-and-heroic-masculinity-in-the-age-of-accelerated-climate-change-the-arctic-artworks-of-katja-aglert-and-isaac-julien/) - In Moving Image Review & Art Journal, volume 12 (2023), issue 1, pp. 9-21. Download pdf
- [“Envisioning a More Just Future: Feminist Activist Art, Climate Change, and the Anthropocene.”](https://www.lisaebloom.com/envisioning-a-more-just-future-feminist-activist-art-climate-change-and-the-anthropocene/) - A Companion to Contemporary Art in a Global Framework. Eds. Amelia Jones and Jane Chin Davidson, eds., London: Wiley Blackwell, forthcoming, 2022.
- [Talk in London at the Royal College of Art on Oct. 17th in person](https://www.lisaebloom.com/talk-in-london-at-the-royal-college-of-art-on-oct-17th-in-person/) - If you are in London, you are invited to attend my book talk at the Royal College of Art in London on October 17th from 5-7pm. The event will be held at the auditorium at the Byson Building, 1 Hester Road, London SW11 4AY.
- [I am thrilled to share that I have been confirmed as a keynote speaker for the prestigious “Precarious Planet: Disability, Rights & Justice” conference.](https://www.lisaebloom.com/2727-2/) - This event will be held at the University of Wollongong's Sydney Campus in Australia, from November 29 to December 1, 2023. The conference website is up and available should you wish to distribute it to your networks. https://southpacificaclals.wixsite.com/website/about-1?fbclid=IwAR19BjxBB3s256uDiAgLnKg0oznBhT0poeXgovdiVKZZRJuBPbRpqovyqq8
- [Recorded version of my online book talk titled  “Exploring Intersectional Feminism for an Ecocritical Feminism” on July 6, 2023](https://www.lisaebloom.com/recorded-version-of-my-online-book-talk-titled-exploring-intersectional-feminism-for-an-ecocritical-feminism-on-july-6-2023/) - Hosted by the British Association of Art History’s Reading Group: The recording of that session is stored here: https://app.box.com/s/jwlglm844n2m7lr3pinncosn1ox2th0o
- [Recorded version of my talk on February 16, 2023 at 7pm ET at the Scandinavia House in New York City](https://www.lisaebloom.com/recorded-version-of-my-talk-on-february-16-2023-at-7pm-et-at-the-scandinavia-house-in-new-york-city/) - Here’s the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXiXAX6oDtE https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/events/climate-change-new-polar-aesthetics/
- [See my guest post on the Duke University Press website where I share a teaching guide for my new book:](https://www.lisaebloom.com/see-my-guest-post-on-the-duke-university-press-website-where-i-share-a-teaching-guide-for-my-new-book/) - https://dukeupress.wordpress.com/2022/11/07/a-teachable-book-integrating-climate-change-and-the-new-polar-aesthetics-into-your-syllabus/
- [See my recorded online book talk for the University of Stavanger, in Norway from December 12, 2022](https://www.lisaebloom.com/sign-up-for-my-upcoming-online-book-talk-for-the-university-of-stavanger-in-norway-on-december-12th/) - Online book talk: Bloom, Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics
- [Presented an in person a book talk that took place at Stanford University on November 28th, 2022](https://www.lisaebloom.com/presented-an-in-person-a-book-talk-that-took-place-at-stanford-university-on-november-28th-see-below/) - Click image at left to see larger version.
- [Sign up for my upcoming online book talk with El Glasberg for Ecoartspace on Thursday, December 15, 2022](https://www.lisaebloom.com/sign-up-for-my-upcoming-online-book-talk-with-el-glasberg-for-ecoartspace/) - In New Mexico, 6pm-7:15 pm (Mountain Time), which will be 8PM Eastern and 5pm Pacific. Here’s the link: https://ecoartspace.org/event-5040154
- [Good news! Anne Hemkendreis wrote the first review of my new book "Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics" Duke University Press where she claims it "is truly a must-read.”](https://www.lisaebloom.com/good-news-anne-hemkendreis-wrote-the-first-review-of-my-new-book-climate-change-and-the-new-polar-aesthetics-duke-university-press-where-she-claims-it-is-truly-a-must-read/) - It was written in English by the art historian Anne Hemkendreis and published on “ArtHist,” a leading platform consulted by art historians in Germany to get information on news events and publications: https://arthist.net/reviews/38059
- [Presented an in person book talk in Stockholm, Sweden at Södertörn University  on November 15, 2022](https://www.lisaebloom.com/my-in-person-book-talk-in-stockholm-sweden/) - For those friends and colleagues in Stockholm Sweden, please consider attending my in-person book talk on November 15, 2022 at 15:00-16.30 at Södertörn University, Room LO215: Info here
- [My Book Jewish Identities in American Feminist Art is 1 of 9 books celebrated by the Frick Collection in New York City for Jewish American History Month](https://www.lisaebloom.com/my-book-jewish-identities-in-american-feminist-art-is-1-of-9-books-celebrated-by-the-frick-collection-in-new-york-city-for-jewish-american-history-month/) - “Originating as a series of oral interviews conducted between the author, Lisa E. Bloom, and living Jewish American feminist artists, this collection of six chapters plus black-and-white illustrations posits that, in a postwar culture of assimilation, unacknowledged Jewish ethnicity manifests as a specter. The project of unveiling the ‘ghosts of ethnicity’ opens the artworks discussed
- [Presented in Person a Paper Titled “Reclaiming the Arctic through Feminist and Black Aesthetic Perspectives” in Bergen, Norway](https://www.lisaebloom.com/1009-2/) - Organized by MaryClaire Pappas, Tonje Haughland Sorenson, and Isabelle Gapp. “Reclaiming the Arctic through Feminist and Black Aesthetic Perspectives.” For the panel “Gender in the North.” Nordic Nature: Art, Ecology, Landscape. Bergen, Norway, June 17, 2022. The program can be seen here.
- [Video-recording for “At Memory’s Edge: Collaborative Perspectives on the Environment in Arctic Cinema,”  is Uploaded on YouTube](https://www.lisaebloom.com/1011-2/) - Presented for the 2021 conference Emergence/y Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE), July 26-August 6, 2021. With El Glasberg, May Joseph, and Sofia Varino, for the panel: “Aesthetic Responses to Environmental Emergencies: Creating New Forms of Collaborative Art and Media Practices.” See the video
- [Online Recording of a Short Talk that I gave on the subject of African-American explorer Matthew Henson and his role in North Polar Expeditions](https://www.lisaebloom.com/see-my-20-minute-talk/) - https://www.thecallofthings.net/matthew-henson-memoir/ It is my contribution to an interactive living polar archive of ‘talking objects’ called The Call of Things — curated by Jessica Houston. The Call of Things draws upon convergences of multiple perspectives, where viewers can ‘call’ objects with their phones and listen to oral narratives and field recordings related to each polar artifact. The contributors range across disciplines,
- [“Contests for Meaning in Body Politics and Feminist Art Discourses of the 1970s: The Work of Eleanor Antin.”](https://www.lisaebloom.com/contests-for-meaning-in-body-politics-and-feminist-art-discourses-of-the-1970s-the-work-of-eleanor-antin/) - Performing the Body/Performing the Text, eds., Amelia Jones and Andrew Stephenson. London: Routledge, 1999: 153-169. Buy at Amazon Download .pdf
- [“A Sixties/ Eighties Comparison of Two Feminist Texts: Monique Wittig's Les Guérillères and Lizzie Borden's Born in Flames.”](https://www.lisaebloom.com/a-sixties-eighties-comparison-of-two-feminist-texts-monique-wittigs-les-guerilleres-and-lizzie-bordens-born-in-flames/) - The Barnard Occasional Papers on Women's Issues, 2:2, Spring 1987. Download .pdf
- [“Gender, Race and Nation in Japanese Contemporary Art and Criticism.”](https://www.lisaebloom.com/gender-race-and-nation-in-japanese-contemporary-art-and-criticism/) - The Visual Culture Reader, ed. Nicholas Mirzoeff. London: Routledge, 2002: 215-226. Buy at Amazon Download .pdf
- [“Creating Transnational Women’s Art Communities in Asia.”](https://www.lisaebloom.com/creating-transnational-womens-art-communities-in-asia/) - In Amelia Jones, The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader. London: Routledge, 2003: 18-21 Buy at Amazon Download .pdf
- [“Ethnic Notions and Feminist Strategies of the 1970s: The Work of Eleanor Antin and Judy Chicago.”](https://www.lisaebloom.com/ethnic-notions-and-feminist-strategies-of-the-1970s-the-work-of-eleanor-antin-and-judy-chicago/) - In Jewish Identity and Art History, ed. Catherine Soussloff (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999), 135-163. Buy at Amazon Download .pdf
- [“Ethnic Notions and Feminist Strategies of the 1970s: Some Work by Judy Chicago and Eleanor Antin.”](https://www.lisaebloom.com/ethnic-notions-and-feminist-strategies-of-the-1970s-some-work-by-judy-chicago-and-eleanor-antin/) - In Jewish Identity in Modern Art History, edited by Catherine Soussloff, University of California Press, 1999: 135-166.
- [“Writing Your Own Script: Revisioning the 1970s and the 1980s Through the Work of Eleanor Antin.”](https://www.lisaebloom.com/writing-your-own-script-revisioning-the-1970s-and-the-1980s-through-the-work-of-eleanor-antin/) - In Eleanor Antin, Eds. Howard N. Fox, Lisa E. Bloom, and Eleanor Antin. (New York and Los Angeles: Distributed Art Publishers in Conjunction with the Los Angeles County Museum, 1999):159-189. Buy at Amazon Download .pdf
- [“Reviewing 1970s and 1980s Feminist Art Practices in the 1990s: Three Major Exhibitions on Judy Chicago, Eleanor Antin and Martha Rosier.”](https://www.lisaebloom.com/1608-2/) - See my introductory remarks to the College Art Association panel that I chaired in February 2001 and presentations by panelists Alison Rowley, Lucy Sautter, Catherine Caesar, Ruth Wallen, and discussant Alex Alberro. In n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal, issue 14, February 2001. Download .pdf
- [“Defining Experiences: Feminist Exhibitions in the 1990s.”](https://www.lisaebloom.com/1610-2/) - ln September 2000, n.paradoxa asked a number of artists, critics and curators for a short quote or statement in response to the questions below: What is your most memorable experience of a feminist/ women's art exhibition in the past 10 years and why? Did it challenge or change your understanding of feminism? In n.paradoxa: international
- [“Charles Deforest Fredricks: Nineteenth Century Entrepreneur in the Photography Industry”](https://www.lisaebloom.com/charles-deforest-fredricks-nineteenth-century-entrepreneur-in-the-photography-industry/) - Unpublished, 1983, 1-68. Written for Nathan Lyons' 1983 graduate seminar in the history of photography at the Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York. Download .pdf
- [“Archives of Knowledge and Endangered Objects in the Anthropocene: From Chernobyl to Polar Landscapes in the Work of Lina Selander and Amy Balkin.”](https://www.lisaebloom.com/archives-of-knowledge-and-endangered-objects-in-the-anthropocene-from-chernobyl-to-polar-landscapes-in-the-work-of-lina-selander-and-amy-balkin/) - Eds., Susi K. Frank, Kjetil A. Jacobsen, Arctic Archives: Ice, Memory and Entropy. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019, 269-284. Online here Download .pdf
- [“Negotiating Feminisms in Contemporary Asian Women’s Art.”](https://www.lisaebloom.com/negotiating-feminisms-in-contemporary-asian-womens-art/) - In ed., Amelia Jones Feminism and Visual Culture, 2nd edition, London: Routledge, 2010: 14-18. Review by Lisa E. Bloom Download .pdf
- [“Constructing Whiteness: Popular Science and National Geographic in the Age of Multiculturalism.”](https://www.lisaebloom.com/constructing-whiteness-popular-science-and-national-geographic-in-the-age-of-multiculturalism/) - Eds. Roddey Reid, Mario Biagioli, Sharon Traweek, Configurations, 2:1, Winter 1994:15-32. Download .pdf
- [“Ghosts of Ethnicity: Rethinking Art Discourses of the 1940s and 1980s.”](https://www.lisaebloom.com/ghosts-of-ethnicity-rethinking-art-discourses-of-the-1940s-and-1980s/) - Socialist Review 94:1-2. Special Double Issue titled" Arranging Identities."(Winter/Spring, 1995): 129-164.
- [“Introduction” and “Gender, Popular Science and National Geographic in the Age of Multiculturalism.”](https://www.lisaebloom.com/gender-popular-science-and-national-geographic-in-the-age-of-multiculturalism/) - “Introduction.” Special issue: Gender, Colonialism, Technology, and ‘Development.’ Vol. 9, December 1997: i-iv. “Gender, Popular Science and National Geographic in the Age of Multiculturalism.” Guest Editor of “Gender, Technology and Development.” “Introduction” to Review of Japanese Culture and Society, Tokyo, Volume IX, 1997, 36-47. Contents .pdf Pages i-iv .pdf Pages 36-47 .pdf
- [“Science and Writing: Two National Narratives of Failure.”](https://www.lisaebloom.com/science-and-writing-two-national-narratives-of-failure/) - In Writing Science. Ed., Tim Lenoir. Stanford University Press, 1998: 328-350. Buy at Amazon Download .pdf
- [“Gender, Jewish Identity and Representation: U.S. Photographer and Feminist Martha Rosler Reconsidered.”](https://www.lisaebloom.com/gender-jewish-identity-and-representation-u-s-photographer-and-feminist-martha-rosler-reconsidered/) - The Bulletin of the Graduate School of Josai International University Issue 2, March 1998: 31-43.
- [“Gender, Race, and Nation in Japanese Contemporary Art Criticism.”](https://www.lisaebloom.com/the-arctic-imagined-in-19th-and-20th-century-visual-culture/) - The Bulletin of the Graduate School of Josai International University. No. 4, March 2000, 87-99.
- [“Rosie at Home: Life Magazine and the Remaking of the American Nation-State During World War II.”](https://www.lisaebloom.com/rosie-at-home-life-magazine-and-the-remaking-of-the-american-nation-state-during-world-war-ii/) - “Rosie at Home: Life Magazine and the Remaking of the American Nation-State During World War II.” Rim: Pacific Rim Women's Studies Association Journal, vol. 1, no.7. March 1999: 32-46. Download .pdf
- [“Gender, Nationalism, and Internationalism in Japanese Contemporary Art: Some Recent Writings and Work.”](https://www.lisaebloom.com/gender-nationalism-and-internationalism-in-japanese-contemporary-art-some-recent-writings-and-work/) - In n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal, vol. 5 (London, England, 2000): 35-43. Buy at KT Press
- [“True North: Isaac Julien’s Aesthetic Wager.”](https://www.lisaebloom.com/true-north-isaac-juliens-aesthetic-wager-2/) - In Isaac Julien: True North. Mak Center for Art and Architecture and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, 2005: 7-15.
- [“True North: Isaac Julien’s Aesthetic Wager.”](https://www.lisaebloom.com/true-north-isaac-juliens-aesthetic-wager/) - Republished in German and English in Isaac Julien: True north: Fantôme Afrique, edited by Veit Görner and Eveline Bernasconi : [Distributed in North America by] D.A.P., Distributed Art Publishers, 2006: 42-45. Buy at Amazon Download .pdf
- [“The Contradictory Circulation of Fine Art and Antiques on eBay.”](https://www.lisaebloom.com/the-contradictory-circulation-of-fine-art-and-antiques-on-ebay/) - In Everyday eBay: Culture, Collecting, and Desire, eds. Ken Hillis, Michel Petit with Nathan Scott Epley. Routledge, New York, 2006: 231-244. Buy at Amazon Download .pdf
- [“Barbies’ Jewish Roots: Jewish Women’s Bodies and Feminist Art.”](https://www.lisaebloom.com/barbies-jewish-roots-jewish-womens-bodies-and-feminist-art/) - Nathan Abrams (ed.) Jews and Sex, London, Nottingham: Five Leaves, 2008: 121-137. Buy at Amazon Download .pdf
- [“Polar Fantasies and Aesthetics in the Work of Isaac Julien and Connie Samaras.”](https://www.lisaebloom.com/polar-fantasies-and-aesthetics-in-the-work-of-isaac-julien-and-connie-samaras/) - In The Scholar and the Feminist (Barnard Center for Research on Women, New York City, Issue 7.1: Fall 2008). Online here
- [“Introduction.”](https://www.lisaebloom.com/introduction-2/) - To The Scholar and the Feminist Online: Special Issue ‘Gender On Ice,’ with L. Bloom, written in collaboration with E. Glasberg and L. Kay. (7.1: Fall 2008). Online here
- [“Ghosts of Ethnicity: Jewish Identities in American Feminist Art.”](https://www.lisaebloom.com/ghosts-of-ethnicity-jewish-identities-in-american-feminist-art/) - In Daniel Rosenberg, Practicing Jews: Art, Identity and Culture. University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2009). Online here Download .pdf
- [“Tableaux Vivants, Dying Empires: Eleanor Antin’s The Last Days of Pompeii, Roman Allegories and Helen’s Odyssey (2001-2007).”](https://www.lisaebloom.com/tableaux-vivants-dying-empires-eleanor-antins-the-last-days-of-pompeii-roman-allegories-and-helens-odyssey-2001-2007/) - Special issue on “Material Histories.” n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal, volume 24, July 2009: 13-2. Buy at KT Press Download .pdf
- [“Arctic Spaces: Politics and Aesthetics in Gender on Ice and True North.”](https://www.lisaebloom.com/arctic-spaces-politics-and-aesthetics-in-gender-on-ice-and-true-north/) - Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, issue 26, Spring 2010: 30-37. Download .pdf
- [“What Keeps Mankind Alive?”](https://www.lisaebloom.com/what-keeps-mankind-alive/) - 11th Istanbul Biennial (12 Setp-8 Nov 2009). Written in collaboration with Betti-Sue Hertz. n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal, volume 25, July 2010: 16-20. Buy at KT Press Download .pdf
- [“Connie Samaras, “After the American Century.”](https://www.lisaebloom.com/connie-samaras-after-the-american-century/) - For the exhibition catalogue: Connie Samaras: built environments, speculative landscapes, and consumer excesses of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, the University of California, Riverside, California Museum of Photography, February 2011. Download .pdf
- [“Polar Fantasies and Aesthetics in the Work of Isaac Julien, True North and Fantôme Afrique.”](https://www.lisaebloom.com/polar-fantasies-and-aesthetics-in-the-work-of-isaac-julien-true-north-and-fantome-afrique/) - Catalogue for the Retrospective of Isaac Julien, Associação Cultural Videobrasil, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2012: 92-129. Download .pdf Download catalogue
- [“Disappearing Ice and Missing Data: Visual Culture of the Polar Regions and Global Warming.”](https://www.lisaebloom.com/disappearing-ice-and-missing-data-visual-culture-of-the-polar-regions-and-global-warming/) - Written in collaboration with Elena Glasberg. In eds., Andrea Polli and Jane Marsching, Far Fields: Digital Culture, Climate Change, and the Poles, Intellect Press, 2012: 119-141. Buy at intellect Download .pdf
- [“Extreme Temperatures: The Work of Nathalie Talec.”](https://www.lisaebloom.com/extreme-temperatures-the-work-of-nathalie-talec/) - For the exhibition catalogue: Nathalie Talec: The One Who Sees Blindly, Yerba Buena Center, San Francisco, April, 2012. Download .pdf
- [“Connie Samaras’ Futures in Extreme Environments: Toward a New Aesthetics of Daily Life and Survival.”](https://www.lisaebloom.com/1133-2/) - For the exhibition catalogue edited by Irene Tastsos, Connie Samaras: Tales of Tomorrow. DAP Press, 2013: 82-86. Description Buy at Amazon Download .pdf
- [“When Ice is Just Ice: Gender and the Everyday in the Arctic Art of Katja Aglert.”](https://www.lisaebloom.com/when-ice-is-just-ice-gender-and-the-everyday-in-the-arctic-art-of-katja-aglert/) - Published for the Winter Event – Antifreeze, published in Art and Theory, Stockholm, Sweden, 2014: 127-133. Buy at Art and Theory Publishing Go to the Online Winter Event
- [“Judit Hersko’s Polar Art: Anthropogenic Climate Change in Antarctic Oceanscapes.”](https://www.lisaebloom.com/judit-herskos-polar-art-anthropogenic-climate-change-in-antarctic-oceanscapes/) - In UCLA’s Center for the Study of Women’s Newsletter, Spring 2015. Online at: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7jx8m9gb Download .pdf
- [“Environmental Art at the 56th Venice Biennale”](https://www.lisaebloom.com/environmental-art-at-the-56th-venice-biennale/) - For the College Art Association’s Online Review Journal, May 2016. Online here
- [“Invisible Landscapes: Extreme Oil and the Arctic in Experimental Film and Activist Art Practices.”](https://www.lisaebloom.com/invisible-landscapes-extreme-oil-and-the-arctic-in-experimental-film-and-activist-art-practices/) - Eds., Anna Stenport, Scott Mackenzie, and Lill-Ann Korber, Arctic Environmental Modernities:Arctic Exploration to the Era of the Anthropocene. London, Palgrave, 2017: 183-195. Online here Download .pdf
- [“Antarctica: Feminist Art Practices and Disappearing Polar Landscapes.”](https://www.lisaebloom.com/antarctica-feminist-art-practices-and-disappearing-polar-landscapes/) - Eds., Klaus Dodds, Alan J. Hemmings and Peder Robers, Handbook on the Politics of the Antarctic. London, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 2017: 175-190. Online here Download .pdf
- [“Hauntological Environmental Art: The Photographic Frame and the Nuclear After-Life of Chernobyl in Lina Selander’s “Lenin’s Lamp.”](https://www.lisaebloom.com/hauntological-environmental-art-the-photographic-frame-and-the-nuclear-after-life-of-chernobyl-in-lina-selanders-lenins-lamp/) - Eds., Lisa Cartwright and Elizabeth Wolfson. Journal of Visual Culture. Special issue titled “Affect at the Limits of Photography.” Fall, 2018. Download .pdf
- [“Martha Rosler and Hito Steyerl: War Games.”](https://www.lisaebloom.com/martha-rosler-and-hito-steyerl-war-games/) - Exhibition Review, Kunstmueum-Gegenwart, (Basel, Switzerland).” Brooklyn Rail: Critical Perspectives on Arts, Politics, and Culture. September 4, 2018. Online here
- [“Forest Law: Exhibition Review of Ursula Biemann and Paulo Tavares,  the Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery.”](https://www.lisaebloom.com/forest-law-exhibition-review-of-ursula-biemann-and-paulo-tavares-the-mary-porter-sesnon-art-gallery/) - Brooklyn Rail: Critical Perspectives on Arts, Politics, and Culture. February 8, 2019. Online here
- [“About Things Loved: Blackness and Belonging.”](https://www.lisaebloom.com/about-things-loved-blackness-and-belonging/) - Exhibition Review of an exhibition at the Berkeley Art Museum. Brooklyn Rail: Critical Perspectives on Arts, Politics, and Culture. September 2019. Online here
- [“Planetary Precarity and feminist environmental art practices in Antarctica.”](https://www.lisaebloom.com/planetary-precarity-and-feminist-environmental-art-practices-in-antarctica/) - Janet Wilson. Journal of Postcolonial Writing (Taylor and Francis), Volume 56, Issue 3, August 2020. Online here Download .pdf
- [“What Keeps Mankind Alive? 11th Istanbul Biennial (2009).”](https://www.lisaebloom.com/what-keeps-mankind-alive-11th-istanbul-biennial-2009/) - Written in collaboration with Betti-Sue Hertz. In n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal, volume 25, 2010, 16-20. Buy at KT Press See .pdf for content
- [“Disappearing Ice and Missing Data: Climate Change in the Visual Culture of the Polar Regions.”](https://www.lisaebloom.com/visual-culture-of-the-polar-regions-and-global-warming-data-new-media-and-new-problems/) - Written in collaboration with Elena Glasberg. Media N-Journal, the Journal of the New Media Caucus, College Art Associate Affiliate Society, Vol. 6, No,1, Spring, 2010. Online here
- [“Feminist Artists and Activists.”](https://www.lisaebloom.com/feminist-artists-and-activists/) - National Gallery of Melbourne, Australia. Commissioned for an Online Feminist Art Course. Melbourne, Australia, 2021. Download .pdf

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- [Lisa E. Bloom](https://www.lisaebloom.com/) - Lisa E. Bloom bridges feminist theory, Critical Jewish Studies, environmental humanities, and contemporary art, examining visual culture through gender, race, diaspora, colonialism, memory, and climate change.
- [Speaking 2024-2026](https://www.lisaebloom.com/speaking-2024-2025/) - SPEAKING: SELECTED PRESENTATIONS 2024 - 2026 In conversation with Ohan Breiding — MASS MoCA Saturday, Nov 8, 2025 (Club B10) An in-conversation about Belly of a Glacier, an experimental film and photographic installation reflecting on practices of care and mourning around the soon-to-disappear Rhône Glacier. Friends from Boston, the Berkshires, and beyond are welcome. https://massmoca.org/.../in-conversation-ohan-breiding.../
- [articles](https://www.lisaebloom.com/articles/) - Lisa Bloom's essays and articles have appeared in The Scholar and the Feminist, n. paradoxa, Configurations; exhibition catalogues on lsaac Julien and Eleanor Antin; and anthologies, including The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader, The Visual Culture Reader, Performing the Body/Performing the Text, Jewish Identity and Art History, Jews and Sex, Inscribing Science, and Everyday eBay: Culture, Collecting, and Desire.
- [books](https://www.lisaebloom.com/books/) - BOOKS Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics: Artists Reimagine the Arctic and Antarctic (Durham: Duke University Press, 2022) In Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics, Lisa E. Bloom considers the way artists, filmmakers, and activists in the Arctic and Antarctic represent our current environmental crises and reconstruct public understandings of them. Contributor: Elena Glasberg The
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- [speaking](https://www.lisaebloom.com/speaking/) - SPEAKING: SELECTED PRESENTATIONS 2018 - 2023 I am excited that I will be giving an online book talk with the installation artist Judit Hersko who is one of the artists I write about in my book and the environmental humanities scholar Cheryl J. Fish on November 15th! You are invited to attend! It is for
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- [speaking: 2010-2017](https://www.lisaebloom.com/speaking-2010-2017/) - SPEAKING: SELECTED PRESENTATIONS 2010 - 2017 “Affect and Polar Aesthetics: Art and Visual Culture of the Anthropocene.” HASSEC Conference 2017. Depths and Surfaces: Understanding the Antarctic Region through the Humanities and Social Sciences, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia, July 4-7, 2017. “Political Art Matters to Build Environmental Social
- [Speaking: 2000-2009](https://www.lisaebloom.com/speaking-2000-2009/) - SPEAKING: SELECTED PRESENTATIONS 2000 - 2009 “Ghosts of Ethnicity: Jewish Identities in American Feminist Art.” The Conney Conference on Jewish Arts· Keynote Talks, Oct. 14, 2008. “Visual Culture in the Arctic and Antarctic.” Presentation for the National Tsinghua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Dec. 9. 2008. Co-organizer and presenter, “Gender on Ice: Feminist Approaches to
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- [Climate Change and  Art](https://www.lisaebloom.com/climate-change-and-environmental-art-2/) - CLIMATE CHANGE AND ART “Jewish ‘Ghosts’: Judit Hersko and Susan Hiller and the Feminist Intersectional Art of Post-Holocaust Memory In open access for a special issue of Arts13, “New Articulations of Identity in Contemporary Aesthetics,” eds., Stacy Schwartz, and Dereck Conrad Murray. Open access, 2024: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/13/2/50 “Countering colonial nostalgia and heroic masculinity in the age
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- [Arctic and Antarctic Studies](https://www.lisaebloom.com/arctic-and-antarctic-studies/) - ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC STUDIES “Countering colonial nostalgia and heroic masculinity in the age of accelerated climate change: The Arctic artworks of Katja Aglert and Isaac Julien” In Moving Image Review & Art Journal, volume 12 (2023), issue 1, pp. 9-21. Download pdf “At Memory’s Edge: Climate Trauma in the Arctic Through Film.” Eds., Subhankar Banerjee,
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