The Provost Professor of Art History and English received the prestigious award for her work drawing connections between Victorian art, fiction and poetry and modern environmental crises. [2¾ min read]
By exploring the work of artists and poets, we can understand how the smallest changes to the environment can signal large-scale damage. [6 min read]
Ph.D. student Robin Coste Lewis garners the prestigious literary honor for her debut book of poems.
Not long after its emergence in the early 19th century, photography gained prominence both as visual art form and as a means of journalistic documentation — with the two seemingly disparate genres often overlapping. Kate Flint, Provost Professor of Art History and English, and Geoff Dyer, writer in residence, delve into photography’s role as a window on life and an evolving method of defining reality.
Kate Flint of art history and English is researching flash photography’s past — through Weegee, Jacob Riis and lesser known figures — to shed light on how it revolutionized the way we view and record our visual world.
Megan Luke of USC Dornsife’s art history department receives the Robert Motherwell Book Prize for her book on Kurt Schwitters, a key figure in Dadaism.
As chair of the art history department, USC Dornsife Provost Professor Kate Flint is re-energizing the graduate student program. Flint “transcends traditional boundaries,” Ph.D. student Christopher McGeorge says.
USC Dornsife 2020's newest research clusters probe immigration issues, visual studies and changes in neural systems as one ages.
