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CHARLOTTE KENT, PhD is the Associate Professor of Visual Culture, Visual and Critical Studies Program Coordinator at Montclair State University and an arts writer. Her work theorizes how visual and linguistic rhetorical devices constrain what we see by exploring their historical and political context. Her current research investigates the absurd in contemporary art and speculative design. She writes for academic journals (Word and Image, Leonardo, Journal of Visual Culture, etc) and general audience magazines (Art Review, BOMB, Wired, among others), with a monthly panel and column on Art and Technology for the Brooklyn Rail, where she is also an Editor-at-Large. Prior to academia, she developed education for the eyecare industry and managed an art school located in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is a graduate of the CUNY Graduate Center, St. John’s College, and Philips Academy Andover. She currently lives in New York City.

Specialization

Visual culture, media studies, digital culture, emergent technologies, contemporary art, history of aesthetics, ekphrasis, narrative theory, deconstruction, critical theory, surrealism, and the absurd.

Office Hours

Fall

Tuesday

12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Wednesday

9:30 am - 10:20 am

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• Ckent.Art
• Brooklyn Rail reviews
• Op-eds for CLOT
• To Manifest, Feminist Art and Architecture Collaborative
• Waiting for the Absurd
• Chronicle of Higher Education article "To Solve the Skills Gap in Hiring, Establish Expectations in the Classroom"
• Writing for College and Beyond