A Radical-Ambiguous (Re-)Vision of America’s West

Oliver Klaassen, previously a Fulbright visiting scholar at University of Southern California (USC) and a visiting scholar at State University of New York at Buffalo (UB), is a lecturer at different German universities and a PhD candidate at GCSC at Justus Liebig University in Giessen, where he works on his dissertation project, tentatively entitled Radically Ambiguous Politics of Queer In_Visibilities in Contemporary Art Photography. His broader research interests include history and theory of photography, queer art and media studies, politics of aesthetics, ethics of visuality, and queer ecology.