Sarah Parsons

Sarah Parsons is Associate Professor of art history at York University in Toronto. She is the author of William Notman: Life & Work (Art Canada Institute, 2014) and editor of a book of essays by Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Photography After Photography: Gender, Genre, History (Duke University Press, 2017). She has written a series of essays on the transnational circulation of Canadian photographs, which have appeared in the journals British Art Studies (2020) and American Art (2023) as well as in the edited volume Cold War Camera (Duke University Press, 2022). Her current SSHRC-funded research project, Feeling Exposed: Photography, Privacy, and Visibility in Nineteenth-Century North America will culminate in a book and a co-curated exhibition at The Image Centre at Toronto Metropolitan University in 2024. She is also an editor of the journal Photography & Culture.