Research Interests:
Contemporary Art
History of Photography
19th and 20th American Art and Culture
Critical Theory
Sample Courses:
Photography and Facticity
Land Art and its Antecedents
Contemporary Art and the Plight of Publicness
Representation, Repetition, Appropriation
Is Contemporary Art History?
Abstract Expressionism
Hollywood 1967-1977
Selected Writings:
"Donald Judd's Credibility Gap," American Art 25 (Summer 2011), 57-75.
“The Tragic Image: Action Painting Refigured,” Oxford Art Journal 34 (June 2011), 227-46.
“Philip Guston’s Return to Figuration and the “1930s Renaissance” of the 1960s,” Art Bulletin 93 (June 2011), 220-242.
“Now Man's Bound to Fail, More,” October 135 (Winter 2011), 49-69.
“James Whistler as the Invisible Man: Anti-Aestheticism and Artistic Vision,” Oxford Art Journal 29 (Spring 2006), 53-75.
Selected Honors:
Henry Moore Foundation, Fellow, 2011-12
Stanford Humanities Center (declined), 2010
Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship, 2006-7
Getty Research Library Travel Grant, Getty Institute, 2006