Darby English

Darby English is the Carl Darling Buck Professor of Art History at the University of Chicago, where he teaches modern and contemporary art and cultural studies, with a focus on American and European art produced since the Second World War. He is the author of 1971: A Year in the Life of Color (University of Chicago Press 2016), and How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness (MIT Press, 2007). He is co-editor of Art History and Emergency (Yale 2016) and Kara Walker: Narratives of a Negress (MIA...See more

Darby English is the Carl Darling Buck Professor of Art History at the University of Chicago, where he teaches modern and contemporary art and cultural studies, with a focus on American and European art produced since the Second World War. He is the author of 1971: A Year in the Life of Color (University of Chicago Press 2016), and How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness (MIT Press, 2007). He is co-editor of Art History and Emergency (Yale 2016) and Kara Walker: Narratives of a Negress (MIA Press 2002; Rizzoli 2007). His short-form writing has appeared in Art Bulletin, Artforum, caareviews, The Guardian, and The International Review of African-American Art, among other venues. English has received fellowships and awards from the Clark Art Institute, the Institute for Advanced Study, the National Humanities Center, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts/Creative Capital Foundation, the Getty Research Institute, and the College Art Association, among other bodies. See less