Todd Cronan

Todd Cronan is a Professor of Art History at Emory University, where he has taught since 2010 and is widely recognized for his work on intentionality, class politics, French painting, modern photography, and midcentury architecture. He earned his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, and has authored several important books, including "Against Affective Formalism: Matisse, Bergson, Modernism" (2014), "Red Aesthetics: Rodchenko, Brecht, Eisenstein" (2021), and "Nothing Permanent: Modern Architecture in California" (2023). Cronan also serves as Editor-in-Chief of nonsite.org, an influential humanities journal sponsored by the Mellon Foundation.