David Joselit is an American art historian who is currently Professor of Art, Film, and Visual Studies at Harvard University, and also a published author,^[1] including being an editor of October.^[2]

Joselit received his PhD from Harvard University.

At Yale, Joselit was a Carnegie Professor^[3] and also a past Harris Lecturer at Northwestern University.^[4] In 2014, Joselit was appointed as Distinguished Professor of Art History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York where he taught until 2020.^[5]

In 2017, Joselit co-chaired the search committee that chose Jay Sanders as executive director of Artists Space.^[6]

In addition to his teaching activities, Joselit has been serving on the advisory board of the Hauser & Wirth Institute since 2018.^[7]

Infinite Regress: Marcel Duchamp 1910-1941. MIT Press, 1998.

American Art Since 1945. Thames and Hudson, 2003.

Feedback: Television Against Democracy. MIT Press, 2007.

"What to Do with Pictures." October Magazine, Fall 2011.

Signal Processing: David Joselit on Abstraction Then and Now, Artforum, Summer issue, 2011.

After Art. Princeton University Press, 2012.

Heritage and Debt: Art in Globalization. MIT Press, 2020