Biography of Assistant Professor Joy Christiansen Erb

Joy Christiansen Erb received a BFA from Miami University and a MFA from Texas Woman’s University in Denton, TX. Before coming to YSU, she taught photography as a visiting assistant professor at Trinity University in San Antonio, TX and as an assistant professor at Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, LA.

Christiansen Erb is an active exhibiting photographer and installation artist. Her creative research incorporates a variety of photographic media including traditional, digital and alternative photographic processes. A recent body of work entitled Family Gathering, examines negative body image and eating disorders and is currently traveling to different venues around the United States. Upcoming and recent exhibitions include the Lee Gallery, Oxford, OH, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX, Hartnett Gallery, Rochester, NY and The Women’s Museum: An Institute for the Future in Dallas, TX.