Rate My Professor Seth McCormick

Seth McCormick serves as Associate Professor in the School of Art and Design, David Orr Belcher College of Fine and Performing Arts at Western Carolina University. He holds the position of Professor of Art History and acts as advisor for the Bachelor of Arts program in art. McCormick earned his PhD in Art History and Archaeology from Columbia University in 2007, completing his dissertation titled "Jasper Johns, 1954-1958: Persecution and the Art of Painting" under the advisement of J. Crary. He also holds an MA. Following his doctoral studies, McCormick was appointed the inaugural Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Postdoctoral Fellow at the Yale University Art Gallery.

McCormick's scholarly work centers on strategies of political, cross-cultural, and intermedial exchange in postwar American art, with particular attention to figures such as Jasper Johns and John Cage. His key publications include the chapter "Neo-Dada 1951-54: Between the Aesthetics of Persecution and Play" in the edited volume Communities of Sense: Rethinking Aesthetics and Politics published by Duke University Press in 2009; "Responding Critically to The Third Mind" in Art Journal in 2009; a review essay on Hiroko Ikegami in Art Journal, volume 70, number 4, in 2011; "Fête in Venice" in Art Journal Open in 2012; and two essays on Jasper Johns for the Tate Gallery London's InFocus online publication. McCormick has co-curated the exhibition "Depth Soundings" at James Madison University's Duke Hall Gallery. He has chaired conference sessions at events including SECAC on topics such as art and eros and gamifying art and design, and presented on John Cage, Jasper Johns, and the infrastructures of containment at the Modernist Studies Association conference.