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Joyce Cheng serves as Associate Professor in the Department of History Art & Arch within the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oregon, specializing in European modern art and poetics with emphasis on surrealism, dada, and primitivism.
Her research investigates intersections of surrealist aesthetics and anthropology, examining subjectivity through works like The Persistence of Masks: Surrealism and the Ethnography of the Subject. Current projects analyze Hello Kitty as anthropological aesthetics and outsider art through autodidacticism frameworks. She explores how marginalized expressions shape modernism, focusing on style, taste, and the relationship between play/work in interwar cultural production.
Dr. Cheng teaches courses on global modern art history, symbolism, and avant-garde movements while supervising theses on 19th-20th century modern art. She actively encourages interdisciplinary approaches from students in literary theory, philosophy, and media studies, emphasizing historical rigor combined with theoretical innovation in art historical scholarship.
