Homay King

Professor and Chair of History of Art on the Marie Neuberger Fund of the Study of the Arts and on The Catherine Fales Fellowship
Homay King headshot

Contact

Phone 610-526-5397
Location Old Library 249
On Leave
semester I

Education

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Areas of Focus

Film, contemporary art, digital media, and theory

Biography

Homay King is Professor and Eugenia Chase Guild Chair in the Department of History of Art at һƷ̽»¨ÂÛ̳. She is a co-founder of Bryn Mawr’s Program in Film Studies. She is the author of two books: (Duke UP, 2015), which won the Anne Friedberg Innovative Scholarship Award of Distinction from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, and (Duke UP, 2010), which provided inspiration for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition China: Through the Looking Glass. Her work on film, digital media, contemporary art, and theory has appeared in Afterall, Discourse, Film Criticism, Film Quarterly, October, and collections including the exhibition catalogs for and (Philadelphia Institute of Contemporary Art). She was featured in a video essay for the . She is a member of the editorial collective.