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Janice Yu



Research Interests

Visual culture, especially photography
Metaphysics and ontology, particularly philosophies about death
Race and representation


Mostly, I am preoccupied with photographic representations of dead bodies and the human relation to death.  My research interests consider the relationship between visual representations of the dead body and how certain notions of subjectivity and race influence the appearance (and/or absence) of these bodies.