Art and Photography​
Julie Wosk is professor emerita of studio painting, art history, and English at the State University of New York, Maritime College in New York City. She is a photographer and mixed-media painter whose work often features images of simulated women. Her work has been exhibited in New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts museums and galleries, and was included in her museum exhibit "Alluring Androids and Robots" at the New York Hall of Science and the Cooper-Union Gallery in Manhattan. Her lecture on the subject, "Alluring Androids and Robots in Film, Photography, and Art" was taped by PBS Channel Thirteen Television in New York as part of their "Best Lectures in New York" series.
Dr. Wosk has also published widely on art, technology, film, and literature, and her most recent book is My Fair Ladies: Female Robots, Androids, and Other Artificial Eves (Rutgers University Press, 2015). She is also the author of Women and the Machine: Representations From the Spinning Wheel to the Electronic Age (Johns Hopkins University Press) and Breaking Frame: Technology and the Visual Arts in the Nineteenth Century (Rutgers University Press).
She has presented guest lectures throughout the country, including at Princeton University, Columbia University, the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Museum of Design, and the National Museum of American History in Washington, DC. Recently she has given several interviews about My Fair Ladies on NPR and European radio. She is the recipient of the State University of New York Chancellor's Award for Scholarship and Creative Activities.