Courses Taught as Lead Instructor

• Global Modernisms: Art and Culture from the Age of Empire to the Decolonial Turn (300-level)

  • This course explores the development of modernisms across the globe between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries through a series of interrelated themes: nationalism, colonialism, and decolonization. Taking a holistic and expansive consideration of visual and material culture—including art, film, museums and expositions, and mobile technologies—it asks how modernisms across the globe emerged as a means of creating, imposing, and confronting ideas of selfhood and otherness in an explosive period marked by nation building, imperial expansion, and decolonization. In considering the specific cultural and historical conditions in which these modernisms emerged, this course challenges center-periphery and top-down narratives of modernism that frame its global development as a linear history, in which European modernist styles and technologies are merely copied and, therefore, judged as imitative and inferior. Rather, this course treats it as a constellation of exchanges, transfers, adaptations, and hybridizations in which many modernisms emerged in different places and at different times. The course ends with a coda on global contemporary art that examines the legacy of this period as it is contended by artists in the present moment.

Courses Taught as Teaching Assistant

• History of Western Art, Architecture, and Design (100-level)

  • This course presents a history of the visual arts, including architecture, sculpture, painting, and design, from the ancient world to the present, with emphasis on the relationship of art to society and to political and cultural events.

• Introduction to Modern Art, Architecture, and Design (200-level)

  • This course provides an introduction to major developments in modern art, architecture, and design in Europe, the Americas, and across the globe, from the mid-19th century to the present. Focus will be on the history and theories of modernism and its international legacies as well as the relationship of the visual arts, architecture, and visual culture more generally to the social, cultural and political contexts of the modern era. Cross-currents in various media will be emphasized as we seek to understand the origins and complexity of modern visual forms in relation to political and cultural history and to critical theory. Students will engage a wide range of readings in historical sources; theories composed by artists, architects, and designers; critical responses to the arts; and secondary critical literature.

• Introduction to Film and Media Studies (100-level)

  • This course introduces students to basic techniques of film production and formal methodologies for analyzing film art. Students will learn the essential components of film language—staging, camera placement, camera movement, editing, lighting, special effects, film stock, and lenses—to heighten perceptual skills in viewing films and increase critical understanding of the ways films function as visual discourse.