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Linda Huang

Postdoctoral Associate

School of Art
College of Art and Design
Adjunct Faculty

Linda Huang

Postdoctoral Associate

School of Art
College of Art and Design
Adjunct Faculty

Bio

Linda Huang is an art historian specializing in global contemporary art and contemporary Asian art. She received her Ph.D. in Art History from the Ohio State University. Her research interests include new media, posthuman, new materialism, art and technology, biopolitics, body politics, and the aesthetics of labor. Her dissertation project, Re-imagining Postsocialist Corporeality, addresses how the fantasies of information during the 1980s affected the development of Chinese media art. Her research has been supported by Mellon International Dissertation Research Fellowship, Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation, China and Inner Asia Council, Asia Art Archive, and Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Dissertation Fellowship. Her writings have appeared in Art Journal, Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, FRONT International catalogue (2018), and various exhibition catalogues.

Select Scholarship

“The Uncertain Body: Lin Tianmiao’s Mother Machine and Postsocialist Biopolitics,” Art Journal Vol. 81, no. 1 (Spring 2022): 97-115. (peer-reviewed) 

“Rethinking ‘Humans’: Pond Society, Automation Fever, and the Disappearance of the Laboring Body,” Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art Vol. 94, no. 5 (2019): 52-68. (peer-reviewed)

“Cui Jie: Techno-utopia and Socialist Model Architecture,” FRONT International Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art Exhibition Catalogue (Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2018), 68-70.

Currently Teaching

ARTH-124
3 Credits
This course introduces students to central issues in the history of art through the focused investigation of a specific theme. Themes will be global in scope, and potential examples include monuments and preservation; the concept of modernity in the visual arts; art and identity; diachronic studies of select works of art; or histories of a particular medium, subject, or form of patronage. Students will apply foundational methods of art history, including basic research tools, formal analysis, and contextual analysis; will engage in careful, conscious looking; will learn to describe and analyze what they see; and will articulate how works of art can express meaning. This course may be repeated with different topics. Topic is determined by the instructor.
ARTH-550
3 Credits
A focused, critical examination and analysis of a selected topic in Art History varying according to faculty teaching the course. A subtopic course description will be published each term the course is offered. Students may take this course multiple times with different topics. Topic will be determined by the instructor.
ARTH-650
3 Credits
This course is focused on the critical examination and analysis of a selected topic in art history varying according to faculty teaching the course. A subtopic course description will be published each term course is offered. This course can be retaken, topics may not.