Affiliate Faculty: Darby English

Associate Professor, Art History
denglish@uchicago.edu

Darby English is Associate Professor of Art History and the College, and Affiliate Faculty in Visual Arts, the Center for Gender Studies, and the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture. He is the author, most recently, of How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness (MIT Press, 2007) and Kara Walker: Narratives of a Negress (Rizzoli, 2007). English teaches courses in modern and contemporary American art, art theory and criticism, and cultural studies.

Recent courses include American Art since 1960; Jasper Johns (in conjunction with a thematic retrospective of the artist's work at the Art Institute of Chicago); Vocabularies of Abstraction; Alternative Approaches to the Visual; Modern/Postmodern; and New Art in Chicago Museums (and other spaces)