Donna Hunter's research has long focused on issues of the public and mediatization. Who represents what for whom and to whom? Which means are used and what role do the means themselves play? Her interest in visual culture began in the 1960s as she became aware of the many changes in and challenges to established ways of not only making but also conceptualizing art that were then being introduced. By training as an art historian, she has long worked on the politicized use of images produced in France in the decades before, during, and after the French Revolution (1770s-1830s). Since the outbreak of the current war in Iraq, her research has concentrated on the various visual means, web-based in particular, used to remember or forget that many people, Iraqis as well as Americans, are dying violent deaths. This research is tied to a seminar she has regularly taught on links between death and patriotism."