Background
Erika Doss was born in the United States.
Erika Doss was born in the United States.
In 1978 Erika received a Bachelor of Arts at Ripon College. Then she studied at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, where she earned Master of Arts in 1980 and Doctor of Philosophy in 1983.
Erika Doss is a professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Her wide-ranging interests in American art are reflected in the breadth of her publications, including Benton, Pollock, and the Politics of Modernism: From Regionalism to Abstract Expressionism, Spirit Poles and Flying Pigs: Public Art and Cultural Democracy in American Communities, and many others. Her current research projects are "Spiritual Moderns: Twentieth-Century American Artists and Religion" and "I AM America: Art, Belief, and Ultra-Patriotism during the Great Depression."
Doss is also the editor of Looking at Life Magazine, a coeditor of the Culture America series for the University Press of Kansas, and a member of the editorial boards of Memory Studies, Public Art Dialogue, and Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art, and Belief.
Erika is famous as the author of books "Benton, Pollock, and the Politics of Modernism: From Regionalism to Abstract Expressionism", "Spirit Poles and Flying Pigs: Public Art and Cultural Democracy in American Communities", "Looking at LIFE: Cultural Essays on America’s Favorite Magazine", and "American Art of the 20th-21st Centuries."