Subject Areas: American Art and Culture, History of Cinema
Office: 104 Scales Fine Art Center
Phone: 336-758-6013

David Lubin came to Wake Forest in 1999 as the Charlotte C. Weber Professor of Art. A Yale Ph.D. in American Studies, Professor Lubin offers courses in the history of art, film, and popular culture. As an undergraduate, Lubin studied filmmaking at the University of Southern California's School of Cinema while reviewing music for Rolling Stone magazine. His books include Act of Portrayal, Picturing a Nation, and Titanic, an in-depth critical analysis of the recent blockbuster. He has lectured at colleges, universities, and art museums throughout the U.S., Europe, China and Australia. His latest book, Shooting Kennedy, examines the photographic portrayal of Jack and Jackie Kennedy from their public courtship in 1953 to the events of Dallas ten years later. In 2004 Lubin was awarded the Smithsonian Institution's Charles Eldredge Prize for "outstanding scholarship in American art."

 During the 2006-07 academic year David Lubin was in residence at Harvard’s Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, where he began writing a book about the impact of the First World War on American art and popular visual culture.