Erika Doss

{{Short description|American educator}}

Erika Lee Doss is an American educator and author.{{Cite web |title=Home - Erika Doss |url=https://erikadoss.org/ |access-date=2024-06-15 |website=erikadoss.org}} She currently holds the EODIAH Distinguished Chair in Art History Professorship in The Edith O'Donnell Institute of Art History at the University of Texas at Dallas.{{Cite web |title=Erika Doss |url=https://profiles.utdallas.edu/erika.doss |access-date=2024-06-15 |website=profiles.utdallas.edu |language=en}} Formerly, she was a professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder and the University of Notre Dame.{{Cite web|url=https://americanstudies.nd.edu/faculty/erika-doss/|title=Erika - Doss // Department of American Studies // University of Notre Dame|first=Marketing Communications: Web // University of Notre|last=Dame|website=Department of American Studies}}

Doss received her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1983,{{Cite web|url=https://cla.umn.edu/art-history/alumni-friends/featured-alumni|title=Featured Alumni|website=College of Liberal Arts}} and "has held fellowships at the Stanford Humanities Center, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Research Center, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies, and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art".

In her 1999 book, Elvis Culture: Fans, Faith, and Image, Doss examines the enduring popularity of singer Elvis Presley, and his rule-breaking dynamics.{{cite web|url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/496810|title=Book reviews: Elvis Culture: Fans, Faith, and Image. Erika Doss|first1=James C.|last1=Curtis|publisher=University of Chicago Press}}Megan K. Stack, "Fans grace the land where Elvis' legacy lives on", Northwest Herald (August 16, 2002), p. 6.Aisling Maki, "Elvis really is still alive at 75 -- as a vital cultural force", Edmonton Journal (January 7, 2010), p. D-2. Spiritual Moderns: Twentieth-Century American Artists and Religion (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023) was listed as one of top 20 Art Books of 2023 by Hyperallergic.{{Cite web |last=Hyperallergic |date=2023-12-20 |title=The Best Art Books of 2023 |url=http://hyperallergic.com/862799/the-best-art-books-of-2023/ |access-date=2024-06-15 |website=Hyperallergic |language=en-US}}