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Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Chicago, Darby English teaches Modern and Contemporary American Art and Cultural Studies. He is affiliated faculty in the university’s Department of Visual Arts, the Center for Gender Studies, and the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture; he is also a member of the board of the Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture. Author of How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness and coeditor of Kara Walker: Narratives of a Negress, he has received fellowships and awards from the College Art Association, the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. English’s current book project, tentatively titled Abstracts of Intimacy, is a study of cultural experiments with modernist abstraction at the end of the 1960s.
