Lisa Bloom is currently a Mellon postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University and has taught art history at the University of California. She has written and lectured on the intersections between gender, technology, travel, colonialism, and visual culture.

• A passion for blankness - US and British polar discourse; nationalism on ice - technology and masculinity at the North Pole; National Geographic Society and Magazine - technologies of nationalism, race, and gender; white fade-out? heroism and the National Geographic in the age of multiculturalism; science and writing - the adventures of male embodiment.