Luke, Megan R.

Prof. Dr. Megan R. Luke is a faculty member at the University of Tübingen's Institute of Art History, holding the Professorship Dr. Paul Mellenthin. She is currently on a research sabbatical during Summer Semester 2025. Specializing in modern and contemporary art from the 19th and 20th centuries, her work bridges abstraction, collage, reproductive media, and sculpture studies.

• B.A., Yale University
• M.A./Ph.D., Harvard University
• Previous roles: University of Southern California (tenured since 2017), University of Chicago (Collegiate Assistant Professor)
• Visiting scholar: Universität Basel, Freie Universität Berlin, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich

Her research explores how reproductive technologies reshaped sculptural understanding, particularly through Max Klinger, Albert Renger-Patzsch, and Carola Giedion-Welcker. She co-edits the journal Photography and Sculpture and serves on the Board of Trustees of the Kurt and Ernst Schwitters Foundation.

• Getty Foundation's Connecting Art Histories Initiative
• National Endowment for the Humanities funding
• William C. Seitz Senior Fellowship (CASVA)
• Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung Fellowship
• ACLS Fellowships

Prof. Luke has supervised over 20 PhD dissertations on topics including photography history, interwar graphic design, and post-WWII painting. Her research group Images Out of Time examines visual culture in digital contexts, while Modernism's Future Pasts investigates East-Central European abstraction.