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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…
Namiko Kunimoto's newest publication, Transwar Art in Japan, can be read in full via Taylor & Francis Online.
Professor of Practice Daniel Marcus's essay, “Weapons of the Weak,” has been republished in the exhibition catalogue Dark Light: Realism in the Age of Post-Truths (Aïshti Foundation,…
History of Art Department lecturer Dr. Sarah Schellinger has published a new book with Reaktion Books called Nubia: Lost Civilizations. Based on her extensive research and fieldwork in…
Associate Professor Erica Levin’s new book has been published by the University of Chicago press. The book, The Channeled Image: Art and Media Politics after Television, looks at the ways…
Margaret C. Flinn is Associate Professor of French and of Film Studies at The Ohio State University. She is the author of The Social Architecture of French Cinema, 1929–39 (Liverpool…
Professor Emeritus Ron Green has published a new article in Jump Cut: Review of Contemporary Media. The article, “A note on content in poor cinema – critical attractions in Jacob Holdt’s …
Erica Levin's essay, "Nothing Clarifies an Image Like Another Image: New Approaches to Found Footage Filmmaking" appears in the new collected volume, A Companion to Experimental Cinema …
Read Professor Kunitmoto's newest publication on Situating Being a Statue of a Japanese “Comfort Woman:” Shimada Yoshiko, Bourgeois Liberalism, and the Afterlives of Japanese Imperialism in Verge:…
Professor Andrew Shelton has published a new article in Nineteenth Century Art Worldwide, in a special issue of the journal on 19th Century French Drawings. Prof. Shelton’s contribution, …
Professor Namiko Kunimoto published an audio essay entitled "On Violence and Gender in Post-War Japan, as seen through Untitled" for the White Cube Gallery's website. Her essay discusses…
Associate Curator at the Wexner Center and Assistant Professor of Practice of History of Art Daniel Marcus recently published a book review for Artforum. The review, "Read Their Lips: The…
Associate Professor and Department Chair Karl Whittington published an essay in Gesta, the Journal of the International Center of Medieval Art. The article, “Painting the Sculptural Body in Lucca…
An essay by Professor Kris Paulsen appears in Transmissions from the Pleroma, a new book on the work of experimental composer and video artist Jerry Hunt, published by the New York…
Professor Namiko Kunimoto's essay "Katsura Yuki and the Allegorical Turn" was recently published in an edited volume called Watermoon Moon Reflections: Essays in Honor of Patricia…
Professor Lisa Florman wrote a brief essay titled "Guernica and the Horrors of Modern War" in commemoration of the 85th anniversary of both the bombing of the Basque town of Guernica and the mural…
Professor Lisa Florman published the chapter “Behind Picasso’s Pins” in the book 1913: The Year of French Modernism, edited by Effie Rentzou and André Benhaïm (Manchester University Press…
Associate Professor Karl Whittington published “The Cluny Adam: Queering a Sculptor’s Touch in the Shadow of Notre Dame” in issue 8 of the online journal Different Visions. The essay is…
Emeritus Professor of History of Art Ron Green, a specialist in film, has published a new article in the online film journal, Senses of Cinema. The article, “Jacob Holdt’s American…
Professor Kris Paulsen has published a new essay on Zach Blas’s AI artworks in Zach Blas: Unknown Ideals (Sternberg Press). Her essay appears alongside writings by Alexander R. Galloway,…
Congratulations to Professor Namiko Kunimoto, whose interviews with the artist Nakamura Hiroshi have been published in a new book called "Respond! Artists," edited by Shimada Yoshiko.
The exhibition catalogue Swing Landscape: Stuart Davis and the Modernist Mural, co-authored by Professor Jody Patterson, Roy Lichtenstein Foundation Professor of American Art, was…
Associate Professor Karl Whittington co-edited (with Dr. Bryan Keene) a volume of essays that has just been published by Brepols in March 2021. The book, “New Horizons in Trecento Italian Art,”…
Congratulations to Jody Patterson, Roy Lichtenstein Foundation Professor of American Art, on her two recent publications: Modernism for the Masses: Painters, Politics and Public Murals in…
Professor Erica Levin's piece "Foundfootage.tv" was recently published in In Media Res. Levin examines a short found footage film, .TV. The film depicts the small country of…
Professor Namiko Kunimoto's article "Tsujimura Kazuko and the Body Object" was recently published in The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus. Her article focuses on the life and work of…
Professor Andrew Shelton recently published a new article in the journal Art History (vol. 44, issue 1) called “Ingres, Painter of Men.” The essay makes a case for the historical…
Congratulations to Professor Mark Fullerton, whose new text book on Roman art and archaeology was just released by Thames and Hudson.
Congratulations to Professor Kris Paulsen, whose book, Here/There: Telepresence, Touch, and Art at the Interface (MIT, 2017), has been awarded the 2017/18 Anne Friedberg…
Emeritus Professor Francis Richardson has just had a book of his poetry, What Remains and What Disappears, published by 11th Hour Press.
The Art of Modern China by Professor Julia F. Andrews and OSU alumnus Kuiyi Shen was selected for Choice's "Outstanding Academic Titles: Top 25 Books for 2013."
Christian Kleinbub, associate professor, history of art, has been awarded the 2013 Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities from the Council of Graduate Schools…
Assistant Professor Karl Whittington has been awarded the Meiss/Mellon Author's Book Award from the College Art Association to help defray the cost of illustrations in his book …
The Art of Modern China by Julia F. Andrews and Kuiyi Shen has been named to the long list of titles for the 2013 book award in the Humanities from the International…