Assistant Professor, Art and Design
Dr. Archer researches contemporary art and design, with an emphasis in textile and garment histories. She is currently completing a book-length manuscript, which considers how textiles are used to produce and maintain the limits of ‘legitimate’ vs. ‘illegitimate’ forms of state violence. Her teaching explores politics and aesthetics through close, intersectional examinations of style, embodiment, and desire. Recent work has been published in Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture, Criticism: A Quarterly Journal for Literature and the Arts, and the New Museum and MIT Press’ recent installment of the Critical Anthologies in Art and Culture series, Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility (edited by Reina Gossett, Eric A. Stanley, and Johanna Burton).
Prior to joining the faculty at Montclair State University, Dr. Archer served as an Assistant Professor and Chair at the San Francisco Art Institute’s Department of History and Theory of Contemporary Art (2013-2018), and as a Resident Scholar in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies’ Beatrice Bain Research Group at the University of California, Berkeley (2017-2018).
Specialization
Histories and theories of art and design; critical cultural studies; performance studies; feminist and queer theory
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About Nicole Archer
Dr. Archer researches contemporary art and design, with an emphasis in textile and garment histories. She is currently completing a book-length manuscript, which considers how textiles are used to produce and maintain the limits of ‘legitimate’ vs. ‘illegitimate’ forms of state violence. Her teaching explores politics and aesthetics through close, intersectional examinations of style, embodiment, and desire. Recent work has been published in Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture, Criticism: A Quarterly Journal for Literature and the Arts, and the New Museum and MIT Press’ recent installment of the Critical Anthologies in Art and Culture series, Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility (edited by Reina Gossett, Eric A. Stanley, and Johanna Burton).
Prior to joining the faculty at Montclair State University, Dr. Archer served as an Assistant Professor and Chair at the San Francisco Art Institute’s Department of History and Theory of Contemporary Art (2013-2018), and as a Resident Scholar in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies’ Beatrice Bain Research Group at the University of California, Berkeley (2017-2018).
Specialization
Histories and theories of art and design; critical cultural studies; performance studies; feminist and queer theory
| Present | Assistant Professor, Montclair State University | |
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Disciplines
| PhD, University of California, Santa Cruz ‐ History of Consciousness, with a designated emphasis in Visual Studies | ||
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| MA, Goldsmiths College, University of London ‐ Cultural History | ||
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| BA, New College of Florida ‐ Art History/Gender Studies | ||
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