“Calligraphy, Poetry, and Power in Wenda Gu’s Neon Calligraphy Series,”
Word & Image 26, no. 1 (January-March 2010): 1-20.

"Wenda Gu's Metamorphoses," The University of Kansas Spencer Museum of Art Register 7, no. 10 (July 1, 2007 - June 30, 2008): 10-25.

“’The Work Is Not Finished:’ Wenda Gu’s united nations Series and the Dartmouth Monuments,” in Wenda Gu at Dartmouth: The Art of Installation (Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College in association with University Press of New England, 2008), 63-85.

“Translation as Transformation: Wenda Gu's Forest of Stone Steles: Retranslation and Rewriting of Tang Poetry,” in Translating Visuality –Wenda Gu: Forest of Stone Steles, Retranslation and Rewriting of Tang Poetry, exhibition catalogue (Shenzhen, China: OCT-Contemporary Art Terminal of He Xiangning Museum, 2005), 311-321. (Also appears in Chinese translation in the same catalogue, 53-64.)

Commodities, Celebrities, Death and Disaster: Andy Warhol, Michael Bevilacqua,
Yasumasa Morimura, Lucinda Devlin, exhibition brochure (Salina, Kansas: Salina Art Center, 2004).

"Rosser's Renaissance: Six Years of Painting," in Warren Rosser: To Be Continued…Selected Paintings from 1998-2004, exhibition catalogue (Brookings, South Dakota: South Dakota Art Museum, 2004), 13-21.

"An Interview with Wenda Gu," in Mark H. C. Bessire, ed., Wenda Gu: Art from Middle Kingdom to Biological Millennium (Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2003), 143-61.

Revising author, "Eighteenth-Century Art in Europe and North America," "Nineteenth-Century Art in Europe and the United States," "The Rise of Modernism in Europe and North America," and "The International Avant-Garde Since 1945," in Marilyn Stokstad in collaboration with David Cateforis, et al., Art History, 2nd ed. (New York: Harry N. Abrams in association with Prentice Hall, 2002), and rev. 2nd ed. (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2005).

"The Art of Robert Sudlow," in Spiritual Journeys: The Art of Robert Sudlow (Kansas City, Missouri: ExhibitsUSA, 2002), 14-66

"Robert Motherwell's Figure Before Blackness," Register of the Spencer Museum of Art 7, no. 3 (2001): 3-11.

"Elizabeth Murray: A New Way of Painting," in Celebrating Modern Art: The Anderson Collection, exhibition catalogue (San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in association with University of California Press, 2000), 196-97.

Editor, Decade of Transformation: American Art of the 1960s, exhibition catalogue (Lawrence, Kansas: Spencer Museum of Art, 1999); essay “’All the Great Modern Things': American Pop in the Spencer Museum," 1-15.

Editor, with Frank Baron and Helmut Arntzen, Albert Bloch: Artistic and Literary Perspectives (Munich: Prestel-Verlag in association with Max Kade Center for German-American Studies, University of Kansas, 1997); essay: “Albert Bloch’s Visionary Landscapes,” 121-128.

"'That Our Soil Will Produce the Artist': American Landscape Painting and National Identity, ca. 1890-1950," in Novelene Ross, Toward an American Identity: Selections from the Wichita Art Museum Collection of American Art, exhibition catalogue (Wichita, Kansas: Wichita Art Museum, 1997), 37-59.

Willem de Kooning, Rizzoli Art Series (New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1994).

• Cubism in Europe and the United States
• Modern Sculpture
• Abstract Expressionism
• American Art of the 1960s
• Art of the 1980s
• Curatorial Problems: American Paintings in the Wichita Art Museum
• Curatorial Problems: American Paintings in the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art
• Murphy Seminar: American Icons (Co-taught with Charles Eldredge and
• Murphy Professor Karal Ann Marling)
• Murphy Seminar: American Art and Culture between the World Wars (Co-taught with Charles Eldredge and Murphy Professor Wanda M. Corn)
  
• MurphySeminar: Themes in Contemporary Art (Co-taught with Charles Eldredge and Murphy Professor Roberta Smith)
  
• Murphy Seminar: The Modern Portrait (Co-taught with Marni Kessler and Murphy Professor Tamar Garb)
  
• Murphy Seminar: Contemporary Transnational Artists (Co-taught with Gitti Salami and Murphy Professor Okwui Enwezor)
  
• Murphy Seminar: Reading American Pictures (Co-taught with Charles Eldredge and Murphy Professor David Lubin)
  
• Major Artist: Andrew Wyeth
  
• Recent Scholarship in American Art
  
• Art History, Theory and Practice

Brittany Lockard, “Size Matters: Imagery of the Fat Body in the Art of Lucian Freud, Jenny Saville, Ashley Bickerton, and Leonard Nimoy.”  In progress.

Emily Stamey, “Pop, Place, and Personal Identity in the Art of Roger Shimomura.”
Defended April 2009.

Jill Chancey, “Elaine de Kooning: Negotiating the Masculinity of Abstract Expressionism.” 
Defended April 2006.

Mark White, “From Dynamism to Objectivity: The Late Career of George Bellows.”
Defended April 1999.

Leesa Fanning, “Abstract Expressionism and the Body: Philosophical and Cultural Interpretations.”  Defended March 1998.

Susan Baker, “George Tooker and the Modern Tradition.” (Begun under Timothy Mitchell)
Defended December 1994.

Kathryn Boyer, “Political Promotion and Institutional Patronage: How New York Displaced Paris as the Center of Contemporary Art, c. 1955-1968.” (Begun under Timothy Mitchell) 
Defended September 1994.

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