Speakers
- Marci Kwon
- Stanford University, Assistant Professor
Marci Kwon is Assistant Professor of Art History at Stanford University. Her first book, Enchantments: Joseph Cornell and American Modernism, will be published in 2020 by Princeton University Press. This book tracks the changing status of metaphysical belief in American art from the perspective of a single artist. Additional articles address Isamu Noguchi, Appalachian Spring and Japanese internment; Japanese internment crafts Surrealism and folk art at the Museum of Modern Art; and Martin Wong and Orientalism. Her research has been supported by grants from the ACLS/Luce Foundation, the Getty Research Institute, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Mellon Foundation, and the Hellman Fellows Fund. She is currently a fellow at Yale’s Center for the Study of Material & Visual Cultures of Religion. At Stanford, Kwon is a faculty affiliate of the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Asian American Studies, African and African American Studies, American Studies, and Modern Thought and Literature.