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Namiko Kunimoto presented her new book, Imperial Animations in Transpacific Contemporary Art, at the University of Chicago on May 13th, 2026. It was held at the Seminary Co-op Book Store…
Professor Aaron Katzeman's essay, "California Is the Eastern Pacific: Toward a Collective Oceanic Realignment," was recently reprinted in Pacific Arts. The essay was originally published in…
On Feb. 17 2026, the ICMA (International Center of Medieval Art) hosted an online book launch for Prof. Karl Whittington’s new book, Queer Making: On Artists and Desire in Medieval Europe…
Ujaan Ghosh has completed a decade-long project translating the seventeenth-century Odia Rāmāyaṇa, Baidehiśa Bilāsa. Co-authored with Amrita Chowdhury, this first English…
Namiko Kunimoto has published her second bok, Imperial Animations in Transpacific Contemporary Art. It was published by the University of California Press and received the FirstGen Scholar Award.…
Assistant Professor Aaron Katzeman's co-authored essay with Drew Kahu'āina Broderick, "'Ka Aina No Ka Poe o Hawaii': Kokua Hawaii's Huli Newspaper, 1971–73," was recently translated into Mandarin…
Professor Karl Whittington’s new book, “Queer Making: On Artists and Desire in Medieval Europe,” has been published by ICMA Books and Penn State University Press as part of the “Viewpoints” series of…
Assistant Professor Aaron Katzeman recently published a review of Jeffrey Gibson's the space in which to place me in the online publication Momus. Premiering at the 60th Venice…
Professor Ujaan Ghosh published his article, Struggling with Kṛṣṇa: Alternative Imaginations in an Odia Mahābhārata, on the multiplicity of the Mahābhārata tradition in early modern India…
Professor Karl Whittington published a short essay, “Touching Saint Sebastian,” in the catalogue of the new show opening at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (the Met Cloisters) in October 2025…
Associate Professor Erica Levin recently published an article in Afterimage entitled, "To assemble is to think…
Prof. Kris Paulsen published an article on satellite and rover images of Mars and artistic reinterpretations of NASA’s data in the “Sense” issue of LA+ Interdisciplinary Journal of Landscape…
Prof. Karl Whittington and PhD student Tony del Aversano presented research at a symposium at the Clark Art Institute on Friday April 11, 2025. The symposium, “Queer Palimpsests: Rewriting…
Associate Professor Sam Aranke has won a major award from the MLA (Modern Language Association) for her book, Death’s Futurity: The Visual Life of Black Power, published last year. The…
A new essay on Artificial Intelligence by Prof. Kris Paulsen appears in the new issue of October. Edited by Pamela M. Lee and Michelle Kuo, the issue features short essays on Art and Machine…
Professors Aranke and Jones, co-conveners of the Samella Lewis Initiative, are featured contributors to the exhibition “Dewey Crumpler: Life Studies” now on view at the David C. Driskell Center…
Professor Kris Paulsen contributed an essay, “Simulating Citizenship,” to a new book on Debi Cornwall, Model Citizens. Cornwall’s new body of work takes “the United States as a…
Professor Karl Whittington has published a chapter in a new edited volume on water in the Middle Ages. The book is part of an intended four-volume series on “The Elements in the Medieval World:…
Distinguished University Professor Emerita Julia Andrews recently published a co-edited volume of essays (with Shuyu Kong and Shengtian Zheng) for Routledge. Entitled "Art and Modernism in Socialist…
Professor Bert Winther-Tamaki (University of California, Irvine) and Professor Thomas LaMarre (University of Chicago) traveled to Ohio State to participate in a workshop for Namiko Kunimoto's book…
Professor Namiko Kunimoto has a new publication: "Olympic Labor and Displacement: Babel and Its Towers." in the Review of Japanese Culture and Society.
Associate Professor of History of Art Sampada Aranke is published in the current issue of Artforum, the premier journal in the United States for Contemporary Art. The article, “Let’s Ride…
The Columbus Museum of Art has published the exhibition catalogue Sarah Rosalena: In All Directions, edited by Prof. Kris Paulsen and containing writing by the graduate students…
Associate Professor and Department Chair Karl Whittington has published a new book with Brepols Press called Trecento Pictoriality: Diagrammatic Painting in Late Medieval Italy.…
Professor Namiko Kunimoto's essay "Autumn Strawberry" was recently published in Cindy Mochizuki's artist book of the same title. The art book, published by the Surrey Gallery of Art, includes…
Associate Professor and Department Chair Karl Whittington has published a new piece of research in Dante Studies, the Journal of the Dante Society of America. In “Diagrammatic Formats from Page to…
Kris Paulsen and Brian Michael Murphy (Dean, Bennington College) have just published Afterlives of Data, a special issue of Media-N. The issue addresses the…