Faculty Profiles

Colleges and Departments

Dr. Erina D Duganne

  • Professor at School of Art and Design, College of Fine Arts & Communication

Service Activities

Ongoing

  • Member, General Education Council. September 2023 - Present.
  • Editor, Photography and Culture. June 2023 - Present.
  • Editor, Feminist Art Histories book series with Rutgers University Press. February 2023 - Present.
  • University Mentor, for Andrew Chen. January 2023 - Present.
  • Editorial Review Board Member, photographies. January 2016 - Present.

2025

  • Chair, Gallery Director Search Committee. 2024 - 2025.

2024

  • Reviewer / Referee, Article submission, “LATINAS: Telling Migrating Stories of Latin American Women in London,” photographies. 2024.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Article submission, “Pictured Exchanges, Quiet Conversations and Silenced Voices: Listening to the US Information Agency Photographic Collection," Visual Anthropology Review. 2024.
  • Tenure and promotion review of Professor Sanaz Mazinani, Department of Arts, Culture, and Media, University of Toronto Scarborough. 2024.
  • Tenure and promotion review of Dr. Kevin Mulhearn, Department of Art and Art History, University of New Mexico. 2024.
  • Juror, Texas State Junior Classical League Art Competition. 2024.

2023

  • Reviewer / Referee, Article submission, “Exhibiting Migration Stories: An Exploration of Poetics in Moysés Zuñiga’s Photography,” Photography & Culture. 2023.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Book proposal, Against Transparency: African American Artists Performing for the Camera since the 1970s by Martyna Ewa Majewska, Routledge. 2023.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Article submission, “On Social Media Photography: #BlackLivesMatter as Civic Media in Kris Graves’s A Bleak Reality,” Afterimage. 2023.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Article submission, “From Colonial Modernity to Postsocialist Reforms: Cheng Xinhao’s Encounters on the Kunming–Haiphong Railway,” photographies. 2023.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Article submission, “Constructing Heroic Narratives: Photographic Archives of Cypriot Memorial Monuments,” photographies. 2023.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Article submission, “Remember Photography: Bidimensional Stillness and Desire in the Virtual Infinity,” photographies. 2023.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Article submission, “Malaise: A journey through the gothic fictions of Daniela Edburg,” photographies. 2023.
  • Tenure and promotion review of Dr. Catherine Zuromskis, School of Photographic Arts and Sciences at Rochester Institute of Technology. 2023.
  • Tenure and promotion review of Professor Nicole Marroquin, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, University of Michigan. 2023.
  • Speaker, Book reading on Otherwise, It Would Be Just Another River: Ten Years of Borderland Collective’s Practice in Collaboration and Dialogue, The Contemporary at Blue Star. October 2023.
  • Speaker, Book reading on Otherwise, It Would Be Just Another River: Ten Years of Borderland Collective’s Practice in Collaboration and Dialogue, Basket Books. September 2023.

2022

  • Reviewer / Referee, Article submission, “Through the Lens of Solidarity: Salvadoran Pictures of Conscience, 1979-2019,” Istmo. Revista virtual de estudios literarios y culturales centroamericanos. 2022.
  • Adjudicator, Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP) Book Prize. 2022.
  • Tenure and promotion review of Professor Lily Cox-Richard, Department of Sculpture and Extended Media, School of the Arts at Virginia Commonwealth University. 2022.
  • Member, Advisory Board, Envisaging Citizenship: Australian Histories and Global Connections. January 2022 - December 2022.
  • Panel Moderator, photographies journal Third International Conference on Borders and Boundaries. September 2022.
  • Coordinator / Organizer, photographies journal Third International Conference on Borders and Boundaries. September 2021 - September 2022.
  • Graduate Marshal, College of Fine Arts and Communication Commencement Ceremony. May 2022.
  • Member, Flex Space Committee, Texas State University Galleries. January 2022 - May 2022.
  • Member, Website Committee. September 2021 - May 2022.
  • University Mentor, for Andrew Chen. September 2021 - May 2022.
  • Member, Tenure Track Mentoring Committee. September 2021 - May 2022.
  • Member, Promotion/Tenure Document Committee. September 2021 - May 2022.
  • Reviewer / Referee, American Association of University Women International Fellowships for Arts and Humanities. September 2019 - May 2022.
  • Co-Chair, Feminist Solidarities and Kinships,” The Feminist Art Project Day of Panels at the 110th Annual College Art Association Conference. February 2021 - February 2022.

2021

  • Reviewer / Referee, Article submission, “‘The Mother Thing in Pictures: From Antagonism to Affection,” photographies. 2021.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Article submission, “‘real space is experience space’: David Antin’s philosophy of photography,” photographies. 2021.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Article/visual essay submission, “At the Borderland of History,” Trans Asia Photography. 2021.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Article submission, “Visuality and the Plantationocene: The Panoramas of Regina Agu,” Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art. 2021.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Manuscript, Protest City by Rian Dundon, Oregon State University Press. 2021.
  • Tenure and promotion review of Dr. Kate Palmer Albers, Department of Art and Visual Studies at Whittier College. 2021.
  • Coordinator / Organizer, ASAP 12: Reciprocity, virtual conference. October 2021.
  • Keynote program organizer and moderator for artist talk and screening by Naeem Mohaiemen and Raqs Media Collective, ASAP 12: Reciprocity, virtual conference. October 2021.
  • Panel moderator, “Site Specificity and Beyond: Loci of Art and Activism", ASAP 12: Reciprocity, virtual conference. October 2021.
  • Panel moderator, “Migration, Solidarity, and Resistance", ASAP 12: Reciprocity, virtual conference. October 2021.
  • Coordinator / Organizer, Global Photography: Temporalities and Spatial Logics, virtual symposium. September 2021.
  • Panel moderator, “Out of Time", Global Photography: Temporalities and Spatial Logics, virtual symposium. September 2021.
  • Co-Chair, Quality Enhancement Plan Task Force on Undergraduate Research. July 2018 - July 2021.

2020

  • Reviewer / Referee, Article submission, “Islam and the Middle East in America: Claire Beckett’s Simulating Iraq and The Converts,” American Art. 2020.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Manuscript submission, Muybridge and Mobility by Tim Cresswell and John Ott, University of California Press. 2020.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Manuscript submission, Between Our Selves: Conversations on Race and Self Representation by Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik, MDPI Books. 2020.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Article submission, “Francesca Woodman: Water Specified” for photographies. 2020.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Article submission, “Women’s Work: Photographers of the Sandinista Revolution,” for Photography & Culture. 2020.
  • Member, Advisory Board, Working Together: Louis Draper and the Early Years of the Kamoinge Workshop, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. January 2018 - December 2020.
  • Member, Foundations Committee. September 2018 - May 2020.
  • Co-Univeristy Mentor, for Jeffrey Lieber. September 2018 - May 2020.
  • Member, Tenure Track Mentoring Committee. September 2012 - May 2020.
  • Member, Curriculum Committee. September 2011 - May 2020.
  • Member, Outcomes Committee. September 2011 - May 2020.
  • Faculty liaison, Alkek Library. September 2008 - May 2020.
  • Program Coordinator, Art History Area. September 2008 - May 2020.
  • Faculty sponsor, Art History Association. September 2008 - May 2020.
  • Member, Tenure-track Faculty in Early Modern Art, Architecture, and Visual Culture Search Committee. August 2019 - April 2020.

2019

  • Reviewer / Referee, Article submission, “Memory turned into photographic image — Eustáquio Neves’s work seen through creation process theory,” photographies. 2019.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Article submission, “Repositioning MoMA’s 1967 New Documents Exhibition,” History of Photography. 2019.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Article submission, “Alberto Baraya’s Decolonial and Posttraumatic Photography,” photographies. 2019.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Article submission, “Doris Ulmann in Brasstown: The Platinum Print as Unruly Object,” photographies. 2019.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Book manuscript, A Critical History of the Department of Photography, Museum of Modern Art Published Writings 1970-2013 by A.D. Coleman, Bloomsbury Publishing. 2019.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Grant application for Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). 2019.
  • Organizer, Faculty Focus Workshop on “An Introduction to the QEP: Undergraduate Research". November 2019.
  • Organizer, “How to Succeed in Art History". October 2019.
  • University Mentor, for Jennifer Stob. September 2014 - October 2019.
  • Graduate Marshal, College of Fine Arts and Communication Commencement Ceremony. May 2019.
  • Organizer, Faculty Development Workshop on “Enhancing Undergraduate Student Research: An Introduction to the QEP". February 2019.

2018

  • Reviewer / Referee, Article submission, “Documenting Mexico’s Ultra-Wealthy: Daniela Rossell’s Ricas y famosas," photographies. 2018.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Article submission, “Los Angeles from the Middle-Distance: The Street Photography of Anthony Hernandez,” American Art. 2018.
  • Undergraduate Advisor, Undergraduate Research Fellowship for Austen Villacis. September 2018 - December 2018.
  • Organizer, Panel discussion on “How to Succeed in Art History". October 2018.
  • Graduate Marshal, College of Fine Arts and Communication Commencement Ceremony. May 2018.
  • Chair, Visiting Faculty in Early Modern Art History Search Committee. January 2018 - May 2018.
  • Member, Faculty Awards Committee. September 2017 - May 2018.
  • Chair, Foundations Review. September 2017 - May 2018.
  • Member, Tenure-track Faculty in Design History Search Committee. September 2017 - May 2018.
  • Member, Flex Space Committee, Texas State University Galleries. September 2016 - May 2018.
  • Member, Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching Selection Committee. September 2015 - May 2018.

2017

  • Reviewer / Referee, Article submission, “Alair Gomes in the United States: New Perspectives on Brazilian Photography,” photographies. 2017.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Article submission, “Spectacularization of Disaster: Photographs of Destruction in Contemporary Coffee Table Books,” Photography & Culture. 2017.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Terra Foundation for American Art International Publication Grant, College Art Association. 2015 - 2017.
  • Moderator, Through the Repellent Fence Q&A with Producer Jeffrey Brown and Director Sam Wainwright Douglas, Texas State University. October 2017.
  • Organizer, Roundtable discussion on “Careers in Art and Design". October 16, 2017.
  • Chair, Faculty Awards Committee. September 2016 - May 2017.
  • Member, Promotion/Tenure Document Committee. September 2016 - May 2017.
  • University Mentor, for Kathryn Moore. September 2016 - May 2017.
  • Participant, with Borderland Collective, “I Am For a Border” Workshop, University of Arizona Museum of Art and Tucson High Magnet School. February 2017.

2016

  • Reviewer / Referee, Book manuscript, Remaking Reality: U.S. Documentary Culture After 1945, edited by Sara Blair, Joseph Entin, and Franny Nudelman, UNC Press. 2016.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Article submission, “Spring on Madison Square: Barbara Morgan and the Great Depression,” Modernism/modernity. 2016.
  • Adjudicator, “A Week in the Life of Texas State,” LBJ Student Center, Texas State University. 2016.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Grant application for Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). 2016.
  • Member, Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching Selection Committee. 2015 - 2016.
  • Chair, Gallery Director Search Committee. September 2015 - May 2016.
  • Member, Faculty Awards Committee. September 1, 2012 - May 2016.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Intersectionality Critique and Exchange, Office of Multicultural Affairs, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. March 2016.

2015

  • Member, Honors College Scholarship Committee. 2015.
  • Organizer, Roundtable discussion on “Graduate School in Art History”. 2015.
  • Organizer, Informational workshop on “Art History Internships”. 2015.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Article submission, “Alternative Media and Art as Information at Libertà al Cile,” Art Journal. 2015.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Article submission, “From Slave Ship to Small Boats: Isaac Julien’s WESTERN UNION: Small Boats,” Art Journal. 2015.
  • Chair, Tenure-track Faculty in Renaissance Art History Search Committee. 2014 - 2015.
  • University Mentor, for Jill Fantauzza (co-mentor). September 2014 - May 2015.

2014

  • Chair, Curriculum Committee. 2014.
  • Organizer, Roundtable discussion on “Graduate School in Art History”. 2014.
  • Guest Lecturer, ARTS 4360-Readings in Photography (Barry Stone). 2014.
  • Member, College of Fine Arts Curriculum Committee. 2014.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Article submission, “Portraits of Pain: Clinical Photography of Children as Social Document,” Depth of Field. 2014.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Article submission, “Save the child: Photographed faces and affective transactions in NGO child sponsoring programs,” European Journal of Womens Studies. 2014.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Book manuscript, Photography and September 11th by Jennifer Good, Bloomsbury Publishing. 2014.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Book proposal, North of Dixie: Lost Photographs of America’s Civil Rights Struggle Beyond the South by Mark E. Speltz, Getty Publications. 2014.
  • Chair, Tenure-track Faculty in Contemporary Art History Search Committee. 2013 - 2014.
  • Member, Tenure-track Photography Faculty Search Committee. 2013 - 2014.
  • Speaker, Lecture on “The Origins of Photography,” Boys and Girls Club of South Central Texas. November 2014.
  • University Mentor, for Gina Tarver. September 2012 - May 2014.

2013

  • Member, Feasibility Study Committee. 2013.
  • Member, Fine Arts 2313 Review Committee. 2013.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Article submission, “Questionable Portrayals: A short history on Cambodia’s photographic archive and the consequences of its inconsiderate reproductions,” Photography & Culture. 2013.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Article submission, “Reconfiguring Race, Exploiting Ambiguity, Re-Contextualizing the Media: Romare Bearden's 1960s Magazine Covers,” American Art. 2013.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Article submission, “The Photographer as Cultural Outsider: Russell Lee’s ‘Spanish-Speaking People of Texas’ Photo Documentary Project,” History of Photography. 2013.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Book proposal, Photo-Trauma: Seeing September 11th by Jennifer Good, Bloomsbury Publishing. 2013.
  • Member, Foreign Study Committee. 2011 - 2013.
  • Attendant, 41st Annual Gathering of the National Council of Arts Administrators, Virginia Commonwealth Univerity. September 2013.

2012

  • Member, Administrative Assistant III Search Committee. 2012.
  • Member, Strategic Planning Committee. 2012.
  • Organizer, Roundtable discussion on “Graduate School in Art History”. 2012.
  • Graduate Marshal, College of Fine Arts and Communication Commencement Ceremony. 2012.
  • Participant, Roundtable discussion on Promotion and Tenure, Program for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. 2012.
  • Adjudicator, Fourth Annual International Research Conference for Graduate Students, Texas State University. November 2012.

2011

  • Graduate Marshal, College of Fine Arts and Communication Commencement Ceremony. 2011.
  • Participant, "Fulbright: A World of Opportunity" Workshop. 2011.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Article submission, “A Law of Unintended Consequences: U.S. Postal Censorship of Lynching Photographs,” Visual Resources: An International Journal of Documentation. 2011.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Book manuscript, The Social Life of Snapshot Photography by Catherine Zuromskis, Oxford University Press. 2011.
  • Member, Library Committee (appointed by Faculty Senate). 2008 - 2011.

2010

  • Participant, "Fulbright: A World of Opportunity" Workshop. 2010.
  • Attendee / Participant, Study Day for American Modern: Abbott, Evans, Bourke-White, Amon Carter Museum of American Art. 2010.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Book proposal, Picturing Pain: Essays on the Ethics of Viewing, edited by Asbjørn Grønstad & Henrik Gustafsson, Routledge. 2010.
  • Speaker, Book reading on The Self in Black and White: Race and Subjectivity in Postwar American Photography, English Bookshop. 2010.
  • Speaker, Book reading on The Self in Black and White: Race and Subjectivity in Postwar American Photography, Wittliff Collections Gallery, Texas State University. 2010.
  • Keynote Speaker, Transatlantic Encounters: Teaching American Art and Visual Culture at the University of Potsdam. October 1, 2010.

2009

  • Adjudicator, 2010-2011 Fulbright Scholarships for Study in the U.S.A. 2009.
  • Chair, Visual Resource Center/Alkek Library Committee. 2008 - 2009.
  • Member, Tenure-track Faculty in Art History Search Committee. 2008 - 2009.
  • Member, Outcomes Committee. 2007 - 2009.

2008

  • Reviewer / Referee, Textbook, History of Photography: A Cultural History, 2/e, by Mary Warner Marien, Prentice Hall. 2008.
  • Member, Curriculum Committee. 2006 - 2008.

2007

  • Guest Lecturer, ARTH 2302-Renaissance to Modern Art (Alan Pizer). 2007.
  • Adjudicator, Persona Art Award. 2007.
  • Member, Scholarship Committee. 2006 - 2007.
  • Member, Tenure-track Faculty in Digital Photography Imaging Search Committee. 2006 - 2007.
  • Speaker, Randall Reid: The Artist as Worker, Dean's Seminar. January 1, 2007 - May 1, 2007.

2006

  • Guest Lecturer, ARTH 3301-History of Modern Art (James Housefield). 2006.