Angela Miller

Angela Miller is Professor of Art History and Archaeology at Washington University, based in Kemper 221. She earned her PhD from Yale University and specializes in American arts and visual culture from the 19th and 20th centuries. Her research examines arts and nation-building, landscape painting history, American modernism, and queer modernities through critical interdisciplinary frameworks.

Research Focus: Miller investigates how visual culture shapes national identity, with emphasis on transnational exchanges, political dimensions of modernism, and marginalized artistic narratives. Her work bridges art history, cultural studies, and queer theory to analyze understudied aspects of American artistic production.

Publication Trends: Recent scholarship explores countermodern artistic movements, landscape representation politics, and cross-cultural dialogues in modern art. Her analyses frequently engage with Marxist theory, postcolonial perspectives, and institutional critiques of museums/exhibitions.

Awards and Honors:

• NEH Fellowship (2019-2020)
• Metropolitan Museum J. Clawson Mills Fellowship (2018)
• Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship (1995)
• William C. Seitz Senior Fellowship, National Gallery of Art (2015-2016)
• Terra Foundation Visiting Professorships in Paris, Berlin, and London

Academic Leadership: Supervises doctoral dissertations on American modernism, public art, and identity politics. Teaches graduate/undergraduate courses including 'Cold War Cultures,' 'Queer Modernities,' and 'TransAmerica: US-Mexico Artistic Dialogues.' Actively organizes CAA panels and international conferences examining mid-century art.

Current Projects: Developing a book on Lincoln Kirstein's circle ('Countermoderns: Reason and Magic') and research on collaborative photography ('PaJaMa Drama'). Maintains ongoing critical engagement with contemporary art institutions and archival practices.