Angela Miller

Angela Miller is a Professor of Art History and Archaeology at Washington University in St. Louis. Her research focuses on American arts and visual culture from the 19th-20th centuries, particularly arts/nation-building, landscape painting, modernism, and queer modernities. She holds a PhD from Yale University and has held prestigious fellowships including the NEH Fellowship (2019-2020) and Metropolitan Museum J. Clawson Mills Fellowship (2018).

Her teaching includes courses like 'American Modernisms and Visual Modernities' and 'Cold War Cultures.' She has authored major works such as Empire of the Eye: Landscape Representation and American Cultural Politics (1993) and Arthur Osver: Urban Landscape, Abstraction, and the Mystique of Place (2018).

Recent research explores transatlantic art dynamics and postwar modernism. She advises graduate students on topics ranging from Philip Guston's leftist art to Yasumasa Morimura's queer critiques of art history. Miller actively participates in international conferences and curatorial projects, advocating for interdisciplinary approaches to art history.