Jae Emerling

Dr. Jae Emerling is an assistant professor of modern/contemporary art.  He holds a Ph.D. in Art History from the University of California, Los Angeles and a B.A. from Wesleyan University, CT.  His research focuses on the intersection between modern/contemporary art and critical theory.  Issues of historiography, memory, and ethics color all aspects of his work.  His doctoral dissertation was entitled The Gesture of Collecting: Walter Benjamin and Contemporary Aesthetics.  Currently he is working on a book about the history of photography entitled Photography: History and Theory, which will be published by Routledge in 2011.  His other publications include Theory for Art History (Routledge, 2005), “A Profane Holy Terror: On Jacques Rancière and The Future of the Image” in Journal of Visual Culture, and “An Art History of Means: Arendt-Benjamin” in Art History and German Philosophy: A Systematic Legacy.  He has presented his work internationally and has received several noteworthy grants and fellowships, including one at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.  Recently he has begun a long-term book project on the American contemporary artist Cy Twombly, which has included archival research trips to the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and to the Tate Modern in London.   View Jae Emerling's CV. (PDF will download)

Courses Taught:

ARTH 3393         History of Photography
ARTH 2110         Contemporary Art (1945 to present)
ARTH 3390         Modernism
ARTH 3114         Art History: Methodology and Theory Seminar
ARTH 4609         Art History Problems Seminar: Representations of the Holocaust