WWI and Culture: A Panel Discussion and Lunch Hosted by the Yale Club of South Florida

The Panelists:

Pearl James, Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, University of Kentucky

Pearl James’s research focuses on modernism and World War I, with a special interest in American literature, film, propaganda posters and other types of visual culture. She is the  author of The New Death: American Modernism and World War I (2013), and the  editor of Picture This!:  World War I Posters and Visual Culture (2009). She received her Ph.D. in English from Yale University.

David Lubin, Charlotte C. Weber Professor of Art, Wake Forest University

David Lubin is a specialist on the history of art, film and popular culture in the  United States. His book Flags and Faces: The Visual Culture of America’s First World War will be published this year, while his Grand Illusions: American Art  and the  First World War will appear in 2016. Professor Lubin was awarded the  Smithsonian Institution’s Charles Eldredge Prize for  “outstanding scholarship in American art”  in 2005. He received his Ph.D. in American Studies at Yale University.

Jennifer Wingate, Assistant Professor, St. Francis College

Jennifer Wingate is an expert on early twentieth-century American sculpture and WWI memorials with a special focus on gender studies, questions of authenticity, and popular art. Her articles on memorial sculpture have been published in American Art, Women’s Art Journal, and Public Art Dialogue. Her book, Sculpting Doughboys: Memory, Gender, and Taste in America’s WWI Memorials was recently published by Ashgate. She earned a Ph.D. in Art History and Criticism at Stony Brook University.

April Merleaux, Moderator // Assistant Professor, Florida International University

April Merleaux’s research focuses on the United States in an international context during the 20th century. Her book, Sugar and Civilization: American Empire and the Cultural Politics of Sweetness, will be published this year. She received a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University in 2010.