Luke Fidler

Assistant Professor of Art History
Luke Fidler
Email lfidler@usc.edu Office THH 355-E

Biography

Luke A. Fidler is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Southern California. He specializes in the art of early- and high-medieval Europe, with an emphasis on the German-speaking lands, Scandinavia, and the British Isles. His first book project presents the conceptual framework of “coercive form” to describe how ambitious experiments in twelfth-century sculpture accompanied and extended novel modes...

Education

  • Ph.D. Art History, University of Chicago, 2022
  • M.A. Art History, University of Chicago, 2016
  • B.A. Art History, Northwestern University, 2014
  • Summary Statement of Research Interests

    medieval European art, ca. 400-1400 CE; theories and practices of sculpture; premodern Arctic visual culture; prison abolition; art historical method; the relation of aesthetics to ideology; form and formalism; racial capitalism and its opponents.

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