Current Research Projects:
Habit in Modern and Contemporary Art and Architecture; Postmodernism, Representation, and Realism; What a Monument Can Do.
I am happy to guide MA theses and develop ideas for Exhibitions on a variety of topics in art and architectural history, visual studies, and aesthetics in the modern and contemporary period including but not limited to the following:
- all areas of visual studies and visual culture
- philosophical and aesthetic approaches to art, art history, and visual studies
- history and theory of European and American architecture and urbanism
- photography
- historiography/theory of art history and visual studies
- restoration and preservation
- issues of habit, bodily disposition, and gesture
- notions of indifference, the neutral, and delays in judgement (see the syllabus for my course, “Topics in Modern and Postmodern Art and Architecture: Rethinking Indifference”)
- repetition, materiality, and temporality
- ethology (the study of the behavior of animals) in relationship to art, architecture and visual studies
- issues of restoration and preservation across all fields, including art, architecture, urbanism, and ecology
- dwelling, inhabitation, and territory
- techniques and technologies of representation