“I have always been intrigued by the ability of the avant-garde to move society forward. This aspect of art and its interdisciplinary nature form the basis of my research. My explorations include the nexus of visual and literary culture in turn-of-the-century Vienna and Munich, the deconstruction of visual theatricality and stereotypical perception in American photography and film and the representatio of disability in art history.”

Timothy W. Hiles received his Ph.D. from Penn State University where his studies emphasized the early modern movement in Germany and Austria and the history of photography. His recent research encompasses visual perception within twentieth-century American photography and film and the representation of disability in historical and contemporary art. Among his publications are Thomas Theodor Heine: Fin-de-Siècle Munich and the Origins of Simplicissimus (1996); “Klimt, Nietzsche and the Beethoven Frieze,” Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and the Arts (1998); “Reality and Utopia in Munich’s Premier Magazines,” The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines (2013); “Shifting Perception: Photographing the Disabled During the Civil Rights Era,” Review of Disability Studies (2014); “The Art of Becoming: The Symbiosis of Time, Space and Film in Pull My Daisy,” Gotthold Lessing’s Legacy: Space and Time in Artistic Practices and Aesthetics (2017); and “Representing Disability in Post-World War II Photography,” Disability and Art History (2017)