Shepherd Steiner is Visiting Assistant Professor in Modern and Contemporary Art. His specialties are close reading, theory, photography, 

modernism and contemporary art. Recent publications include “Snow Changes Everything: Unfinished Form in the Filmwork of Ibon Aranberri” (Fundacio Tapies, 2008), “Reading Reading in Benjamin’s ‘Little History of Photography’” (InTensions, 2008); “Curatorial Formalism and Tinkering with the Political on the Far Side of the Subject at Documenta XII” (Journal of Visual Culture, 2008); “(Art and) Democracy | Hegemony (and Anarchy),” in Becoming Dutch, (Eindhoven, 2008); "(In, And and Not) Boolean Searches in the Martha Rosler Library" (Filip 9, 2008);" "The Remains of Painting: In, After and In spite of Minimalism" (Flash Art, 2008); ">A \\\'New\\\' Reading of \\\'Clement Greenberg’s Theory of Art\\\'” Formalist Literary Theory in America, (Oxford, 2008).

He co-edited Cork Caucus: on art, possibility, and democracy (Frankfurt, 2007) and is currently finishing a book of close readings in Modernist painting, sculpture and criticism in America in 1950s and 1960s. A curatorial project focused on American painting and video art titled, “Acts of Non-Agression: 1960-76” will open at the Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven Holland in September 2008.