About

Jill H. Casid is a Professor of Visual Studies in the Department of Art History and the Department of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She also serves as the Director of Graduate Studies. Her academic role involves research and teaching in the fields of visual culture, gender studies, and art history. The specific details of her research focus, background, and key contributions are not provided in the page text.

Research topics

• Sociology
• Political Science
• Aesthetics
• History
• Visual arts
• Art
• Computer Science
• Psychoanalysis
• Art history
• Business
• Geography
• Psychology
• Philosophy
• Epistemology
• Gender studies
• Law
• Social psychology

Selected publications

• Roundtable on Decolonial Jewish Practice in Art and Visual Culture ‘after Gaza’

  Journal of Visual Culture · 2025-04-01

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• Conversation with Jill H. Casid and Anna Campbell

  Filozofski vestnik · 2023-12-22

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  The conversation with Jill H. Casid and Anna Campbell is a reconceptualization of several themes to develop an aesthetic that incorporates notions of the necropolitical and redefines the concept of the Anthropocene as the Necrocene. The Necrocene implies an era marked by death, decay, and the consequences of human impact on the environment, as well as a critical reflection on the choices individuals and societies make that contribute to the transition from the Anthropocene to the Necrocene. These reflections serve as cautionary tales or reflections on the unsustainable path of the Anthropocene. An important reflection in the interview is how queer and transgender people are using art and assemblages to refuse the terms of the current tensions of the culture wars.

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• Trans visibility and trans viability: a Roundtable

  Journal of Visual Culture · 2022 · 2 citations

  • Sociology
  • Computer Science
  • Visual arts

  This Roundtable is crafted from the online event held on Saturday 20 November 2021 on Trans Visual Cultures. That event was organized to celebrate the recently published themed issue of Journal of Visual Culture on new work in transgender art and visual cultures, guest edited by Cyle Metzger and Kirstin Ringelberg, and suggested for the journal by Jill H Casid. The themed issue emerged from a session run at the College Art Association in New York, 2018, programmed by Metzger and Ringelberg. For the event in November 2021, some of the contributors to the journal’s themed issue (Kara Carmack, Sascha Crasnow, Stamatina Gregory, Cyle Metzger and Kirstin Ringelberg) were joined by interlocutor Jill Casid, and respondent Jack Halberstam to share their thoughts on trans visual culture/s now, and to consider what it is to write trans visual culture, as well as to live in relation to transness. The event happened to fall on Transgender Day of Remembrance. Given the fraught or ambivalent feelings that many have about such a day, the event was also taken as an occasion to talk about ways of untethering trans visibility from what is lethal to trans viability. After the event, the organizers solicited a few additional reflections on concerns that emerged – in particular around matters of the visual, trans visibility, and lived experience. These are brought together to act as a refractive prism for what happens when we center thinking seriously with the implications and potentials of trans art and visual culture for trans hopes and fears, kinship and community, lives and loves. The publication of this Roundtable takes the themed issue as a crucial springboard for critical, transversal trans* imaginings of the variant worlds to be unfolded by undoing the lock of the gender binary and its settler colonial and white supremacist violences, and to further the demand that thinking with trans alters substantially the ways we approach the visual.

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• Escenas de proyección

  Metales Pesados eBooks · 2022-12-01

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• Handle with care (2012)

  2022-01-01

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  Jill H. Casid, ‘Handle with Care’, TDR/The Drama Review, 56:4 (Winter, 2012), pp. 121–135. © 2012 by New York University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.What was so special about this song? Well the thing was, I didn’t used to listen properly to the words; I just waited for that bit th

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• Jill H. Casid

  Panorama · 2022 · 1 citations

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  • Business

  Panorama is a peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication dedicated to American art and visual culture (broadly defined). The journal is intended to provide a high-caliber international forum for disseminating original research and scholarship and for sustaining a lively engagement with intellectual developments and methodological debates in art history, visual and material cultural studies, and curatorial work.

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• Landscape Vertigo

  Huntington Library Quarterly · 2021-09-01

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  Taking up the challenge of comprehending the history of gardening in the Atlantic world through the frame of "moving landscapes" demands that we confront the wake of the unfinished histories of transatlantic slavery, settler coloniality, and dispossession. Such a confrontation obliges us to reckon with the spectral violence of landscaping in the making of the Atlantic world, or what I call landscape vertigo. In understanding landscape vertigo not only as a matter of effects and affects but also as a call for praxis, I lay out four propositions for understanding landscaping as machine of necropower.

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• Thanatography: Working the Folds of Photography’s Wild Performativity in Capital’s Necrocene

  Photography and Culture · 2020 · 10 citations

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  • Sociology
  • Aesthetics
  • Sociology

  Thinking with the current return to camera-less photography and specifically the use of the photogram in the context of Capitalocene crisis as scene of compounded death I call the Necrocene, this article unfolds a set of propositions on photography’s pressing relation to death. In thanatographic praxis, death materializes not as the documented and shown or “death-as-image.” Rather, this thanatophotographic praxis works with the process of dying as medium in the vulnerable materiality of the bare exposure as something other and more than a matter of mourning. This new ars moriendi does not just contest but also potentially offers an ethico-aesthetic tactics for transforming—at the scale of the micro—the macro and even hyper-conditions in which we are living our dying in capital’s Necrocene. Focusing particularly on what artist Joy Episalla terms the foldtogram, this article unfolds thanatographic practice as not merely a creative refusal of the extractive and surveilling terms of compulsory visualization but also as the tactical exercise of a kind of melancholy joy that works the folds of photography’s wild performativity. Neither limited to the effects of analogue nor merely functioning analogically, photography’s wild performativity expands the processual scene of making to affect more than its referent.

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• Doing things with being undone

  Journal of Visual Culture · 2019-04-01 · 21 citations

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  Mis-hear the ‘cene’ in Anthropocene and we are not beholders of an epoch or witnesses to a prospect of distancing projection onto a deep past or lost future but, rather, in the scene of our undoing. In this scene that I reframe as the Necrocene, there are still ways of doing things with being undone. Current art practice offers a new ars moriendi to make contestatorily palpable and even transform the necropolitical conditions of the Necrocene crisis by working with the strangely resilient powers of death. Current practices that deform the landscape-form demonstrate how the vulnerability of living our dying offers a queer material medium to agitate for livable life toward a black, trans* more-than-human commons.

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• Shadows of Enlightenment

  University of Minnesota Press eBooks · 2015-01-01

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Frequent coauthors

• María DeGuzmán

  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  2 shared

• Jovita Pristovšek

  2 shared

• Louis Kaplan

  University of Toronto

  1 shared

• J. Timberlake

  1 shared

• Jack Halberstam

  Columbia University

  1 shared

• George Piggford

  1 shared

• Geoffrey Batchen

  1 shared

• Jennifer A. González

  Nature Inspires Creativity Engineers Lab

  1 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Art History

  University of California, Berkeley

  1995

• M.A., Art History

  University of California, Berkeley

  1991

• B.A., Art History

  University of California, Santa Barbara

  1988

Awards & honors

• Millard Meiss grant from College Art Association (2003)
• Clark-Oakley Fellow at the Clark Art Institute and the Oakle…
• Kellett Mid-Career Award (2023)
• Vilas Research Investigator Award (2014)
• H. I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship (2011)