Matthew Biro Professor and Associate Chair PhD State University of New York, Stony Brook

Scholarly interests include aesthetic theory, methodologies of interpretation, twentieth-century art, and popular culture, with special focus on the art and culture of Germany and the United States. Publications include "Representation and Event: Anselm Kiefer, Joseph Beuys, and the Memory of the Holocaust" (2003), "History at a Standstill: Walter Benjamin, Otto Dix, and the Question of Stratigraphy" (2001), "Allegorical Modernism: Carl Einstein on Otto Dix" (2000), Anselm Kiefer and the Philosophy of Martin Heidegger (1998; paperback edition: 2000), "The New Man as Cyborg: Figures of Technology in Weimar Visual Culture" (1994), "Art Criticism and Deconstruction: Rosalind Krauss and Jacques Derrida" (1990), and The Rockamerica Guide to Video Music (1984). The New Human as Cyborg: Cultural Critique and Artistic Self-Fashioning in Berlin Dada Art was published in 2009.