Professor
Department of German
New York University
AB, History and Literature, Harvard University, 1983
PhD, Fine Arts, Harvard University, 1991
Department of German
New York University
19 University Place
New York, NY 10003
212-998-3768
christopher.wood@nyu.edu
Christopher Wood came to New York University in 2014. From 1992 until 2014 he taught in the Department of History of Art at Yale University. At Harvard University he was a Jacob Wendell Scholar and a Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows. In 2002 he was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and a NEH Rome Prize Fellowship to the American Academy in Rome. In fall 2004 he was Ellen Maria Gorrissen Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. In 2011-12 he was a Member of the School for Historical Studies of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; and a Senior Fellow at the Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften, Vienna. In fall 2018 he was Visiting Professor at Villa I Tatti. In summer 2023 he was Aby-Warburg-Stiftung Professor at the Warburg-Haus in Hamburg and in the coming academic year he will be a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin. Christopher Wood is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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RECENT LECTURES / RESEARCH INTERESTS
Recent and upcoming lectures and presentations
- “Was war die Volkskunst?” Forschungskolloquium zur Kunstgeschichte der Vormoderne. Universität der Künste, Berlin, January 15, 2024
- “Warburg’s Europe,” keynote lecture at V. Congresso de História da Arte, Portuguese Association of Art Historians (APHA), Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, October 20, 2023
- “Fatalität in den deutschen Sagen,” colloquium: Anachronic Tragedy, in honor of Anselm Haverkamp, Munich, July 18, 2023
- “Albrecht Altdorfer unter den Marketendern: Formen und Wanderungen des Kriegsvolks,” Warburg-Haus, Hamburg, July 4, 2023
- “Reversible nestings of the mythic and real (Velazquez, Los Borrachos),” Parentheses of Reception: 17th Trends in Classics International Conference, Thessaloniki, June 2, 2023
Research Interests:
- Italian painting of the Trecento and Quattrocento
- History of the discipline of art history
- Theories of art: philosophical aesthetics
- Temporalities of art: anachronism, archaism, typology
- History of archeology and antiquarianism
- Archeology and credulity: forgery
- Cultures of art in the eighteenth century: archeology, antiquarianism, aesthetics
- French painting of the nineteenth century, especially Impressionism
- History of dance and performance
- Realism, history and theory
- Popular, prosaic, profane: representations of lowly, everyday, unpatterned in early modern Europe
- Prose and the prosaic
- Portraiture and late medieval devotional painting: donor portraits, votaries
- Funerary and votive art in fourteenth-century Italy
- “Folk art,” folklore, popular culture
- Votive objects and images, pilgrimages, relics
- Early panel painting (13th – 14th century)
- Drawing and studio practice in the Renaissance
- Art and replication technologies (print, bronze casting, tapestry)
- Media theory and archeology
- Early woodcuts, engravings, and illustrated books
- Renaissance magic and witchcraft
- Art and the Protestant Reformation; iconoclasm
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