Peter Wang

Dr. Peter Wang is an Assistant Professor of Art History and Visual Studies at the University of Kentucky, where he specializes in modern/contemporary art, American art and visual culture, and history of photography. His primary research examines the intersection of photography and the American road trip. Dr. Wang has developed and taught a course on art and environment, introducing students to the development of landscape as a genre in art, visual studies of human interaction with nature, art and climate change, and ecocriticism in art history. Dr. Wang’s research has been supported by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Terra Foundation for American Art, the Association of Historians of American Art, the Henry Luce Foundation, the Popular Culture Association, and the Center for Humanities at Temple University (CHAT). His work has been published in Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art among others.

Email: peter.wang@uky.edu

Research Areas: art history, landscape photography, ecocriticism in art, art and climate change, visual studies of extraction and natural disaster

Collaborative Interests: department seminars, graduate committees, grant collaborations, guest lectures, public lectures, publications, research collaborations