Joel Snyder
Patrick Crowley
Andrew Schachman
Boyoung Chang
Christopher Allison
Dario Donetti
Katherine Tsiang
Lisa Zaher
Luke Joyner
Maira Kokkori
Miguel Caballero Vazquez
Seth Estrin
Solveig Nelson
Tamara Golan
Critical Inquiry
Urban Art and Urban Form
Neubauer Collegium: Outsider Writing
Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor of English Language and Literature, Art History, and the College
Theory and Criticism
203 Wiebolt Hall
wjtm@uchicago.edu
W. J. T. Mitchell is editor of the interdisciplinary journal, Critical Inquiry, a quarterly devoted to critical theory in the arts and human sciences. A scholar and theorist of media, visual art, and literature, Mitchell is associated with the emergent fields of visual culture and iconology (the study of images across the media). He is known especially for his work on the relations of visual and verbal representations in the context of social and political issues. Under his editorship, Critical Inquiry has published special issues on public art, psychoanalysis, pluralism, feminism, the sociology of literature, canons, race and identity, narrative, the politics of interpretation, postcolonial theory, and many other topics. He has been the recipient of numerous awards including the Guggenheim Fellowship and the Morey Prize in art history given by the College Art Association of America. In 2003, he received the University of Chicago's prestigious Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching.
During his editorship, Critical Inquiry has published issues on canon-formation, gender, race and writing, public art, politics and poetic value, metaphor, psychoanalysis, identity politics, pluralism, new directions in art history, questions of evidence, and many other special topics.
Professor Mitchell has twice served as a Professor at the School of Criticism and Theory (Northwestern, 1983; Dartmouth, 1990), and he has lectured at universities and art museums throughout the United States, as well as in Europe and the Far East. Recent special teaching assignments include a Mellon Faculty Seminar at Tulane University, a seminar on Romanticism at Beijing Foreign Studies University in China, an NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers at the University of Chicago, a post as Canterbury Visiting Fellow at Canterbury University, New Zealand, a visiting professorship at the Institute for Art History, Aarhus, Denmark, and two visiting professorships at the Institute for Fine Arts and English Department at New York University in 1998 and 2000. The South African Council for Scientific Development sponsored his lectures in Capetown, Durban, and Johannesburg in the summer of 1997, and Duke University invited him to give the Benenson Lectures in Art History in the spring of 2000. In the spring of 2002 he was awarded the Berlin Prize Fellowship to the American Academy in Berlin, and in the fall of 2002 he delivered the Alfonso Reyes Lectures in Mexico City. Other recent lectures include the W. E. B. Du Bois lectures at Harvard, and the Patten Lectures at Indiana University. He was a research fellow at the Clark Institute for Art History in the fall of 2008, and received the MLA's 2006 James Russell Lowell Prize in Language and Literature for "What Do Pictures Want?".
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Early American Art and Material Culture
Gates-Blake 309
Medieval and Renaissance Architecture and Urban History
arth-maph@lists.uchicago.edu
Ancient American Art
Orianna Cacchione
Contemporary Art, Asian Art
Roman Art and Archaeology
arth-dus@lists.uchicago.edu
Renaissance and Contemporary Architecture
Late Antique Art
Swift 303B
Modern and Contemporary Art, Cultural Studies
Ancient Greek Art and Archaeology
MAPH Art History Advisor
Medieval and Early Modern Art
Maria Kokkori
Materials and Conservation Science
Swift 234
Western Medieval Art and Architecture
arth-dgs@lists.uchicago.edu
Jennifer Dorothy Lee
Modern and Contemporary Art, Chinese Art
Chinese Art and Architecture
Director of Graduate Studies
Assistant Professor, East Asian Art and Architecture
18th and 19th Century Art and Literature
Early Modern Art
mehring@uchicago.edu
Ancient Greek Art and Architecture
Modern Art and Aesthetics
CWAC 270 (as of Spring 2019)
Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art
Design, Modern and Contemporary Art
19th and 20th Century Architecture
Cultural Studies, Modern and Contemporary Art
Applied Anthropology
19th and 20th Century Art
Photography, Modern and Contemporary Art
Conservation Research Fellow