GREGORY WILLIAMS

725 Commonwealth Ave, Rm 215C
Boston, Massachusetts 02215
Telephone: (617) 358-0038
Fax: (617) 353-3243
E-mail: ghw@bu.edu

curriculum vitae

Assistant Professor; Contemporary Art. BA, Claremont McKenna College; MA, Tufts University; PhD, City University of New York.

Gregory Williams received his PhD in Art History from the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Since arriving at BU in 2005, he has delivered lectures and participated in conferences in Boston, Philadelphia, Dallas, Beacon (New York) and Cologne. An editor-at-large of Brooklyn’s Cabinet magazine, he has published art criticism in numerous periodicals, including Artforum International and Texte zur Kunst, and has contributed several essays to international exhibition catalogues. He has written catalogue essays for the retrospective exhibitions of Rosemarie Trockel at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne (2005) and Martin Kippenberger at the Tate Modern in London (2006). His essay, “Jokes Interrupted: Martin Kippenberger’s Receding Punch Line,” first published as part of the Kippenberger retrospective at the Tate Modern, was reprinted in Jennifer Higgie, ed., The Artist’s Joke (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007). He teaches lecture courses and seminars at the undergraduate and graduate levels in modern and contemporary art and critical theory. His book-in-progress explores art, humor and politics in West Germany from the 1960s through the 1980s. Professor Williams has received several fellowships and awards, including a Fulbright Fellowship to Germany, a grant from the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies, as well as a Faculty Research Visit Grant from the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service). He was recently awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship by the Getty Foundation, which will support a leave of absence during the 2008-2009 academic year.