Joyce Cheng

JOYCE CHENG, Assistant Professor
Lawrence Hall 237 A
phone: 541-346-3677
email: joycec@uoregon.edu
University of Chicago, Ph.D., 2009
Curriculum Vitae

Prof. Cheng received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2009.  Her research interests are in the artistic practices and theories of the European avant-garde in the interwar period. She has published articles and book chapters on Symbolist art; primitivist aesthetics; Dada and Surrealism. She is especially interested in the link between modernist primitivism and what she calls the anthropological aesthetics of the European avant-garde, which is the subject of her current book project, Masks, Puppets and Chimeras: Toward An Anthropological Aesthetics of the Avant-Garde, 1915-1945.  She is equally also interested in the possible points of encounter between avant-garde art theories and art historiography. Amidst her ongoing projects is an article comparing the anthropological interests of Aby Warburg and André Breton.