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Academic and Special Appointments:
Visiting Professor at Yale University, 2004-present, and at Rhode Island School of Design, 2011.

Forthcoming Publications:

Anthony McCall: Solid Light, Performance and Public Works
Fundació Gaspar, Barcelona. May 31, 2016 - October 30, 2016
Curated by Gloria Moure and with an in-depth essay by noted American art historian Robert Hobbs, the show explores how McCall’s practice challenges our concept of sculpture and performance.
http://fundaciogaspar.com

"Krasner, Mitchell, and Frankenthaler.” In Abstract Expressionist Women Painters, ed. Joan Marter. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, Forthcoming. The book will serve as the catalogue for the exhibition, with the same title, organized by the Denver Museum of Art.

"Minimal Art.” In Dwan Gallery, 1959-1971, ed. Anne Kovach and James Meyer. Cambridge and London: M.I.T. Press, Forthcoming. This book will also server as a catalogue for the National Gallery's exhibition in honor of Virginia Dwan's generous bequest.

Current Research:
Monographs on Beverly Pepper, Peter Halley, Joseph Kosuth, and Robert Smithson.

Essay on Frank Stella for Career Survey of His Work, Haunch of Venison, London (Fall 2011)

Talks:
Lecture, "The Contemporary Sublime" (de la Cruz Collection, Miami, September 2010 and University of Tennessee, Knoxville, October, 2010);

Paper, "Image Duplication: 'Roy Lichtenstein's Legacy'" for symposium "Lichtenstein in Context" (Morgan Library & Museum, New York, November 2010);

"Modern Art's Changing Focus: From Surrogate Viewer to Thoughtful Participant" (Palm Springs Museum of Art, February 2011);

Participated in public conversations with Barbara Haskell on Edward Hopper (Whitney Library Fellows, November 2010), with Peter Halley on his art (Gering & Lopez, New York City, March 2011), and with Xiaoze Xie and his art's connections with western traditions (China Institute, New York City, March 2011).

Teaching:
Graduate Seminar: “Form Revisited,” Yale University, Fall, 2011

Graduate Seminars:"Form Revisited" Fall 2010; "Abstract Expressionism Revisited," Spring 2011 (this course included a one-week trip to the Hamptons and New York City); and "Postmoderism Revisited," Fall 2011 (all Virginia Commonwealth University)

Dissertations and Theses:
Dissertation director for the following:

Timothy Andrus, "Stuart Davis's Theory of Art in the 1920-1928";
Kathryn Campbell, "Imaging Russia during the Cold War: Photographs in Life Magazine, 1945-1962";
Dennis Durham, "Iain Baxter & N.E. Think Co.: A Study in Pop-Influenced Conceptual Art" (completed 2011);
Heather McGuire, "John Baldessari's Blasted Allegories" (completed 2010);
Jessica Welton, "Fred Kabotie and the Formation of the Santa Fe School"

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