Dr. Eunice Uhm

Assistant Professor, Fine and Performing Arts

Eunice Uhm
Email
Phone
(413) 662-5308
Office
Bowman Hall 322C

Education

Ph.D., Ohio State University, 2021

M.A., Ohio State University, 2016

B.A., American University, 2013

Courses Taught

CCAP-300: Representation of the Other

ARTH-117: Introduction to Art History, Fall 2022

AMGT-335: Museum Studies, Fall 2022

ARTH-217: Contemporary Art, Spring 2023

ARTH-413: Politics of (In)Visibility: Asian American Art, Spring 2023

Research/Creative Interests:

Dr. Eunice Uhm specializes in modern and contemporary art, with a transnational focus on the United States and East Asia. Her work examines the conditions of migration and the diasporic aesthetic subjectivities in the works of contemporary Japanese and South Korean art from the 1960s to the present.

Description of Special Projects/Activities

Beyond her academic research, she curated several exhibitions, including an online exhibition titled "I Am Here/You Were There: Archiving Transnational Memory Within the Korean Diaspora." She is also an active member of numerous grassroots community organizations for Asian Americans and immigrant rights, and she is involved in immigrant rights campaigns such as Love Has No Borders: A call for justice in our immigration system.

Publications

Uhm, Eunice. "Contradictions and Continuity: Constructing Asian American Political and Aesthetic Subjectivities in the Work of Ruth Asawa." Verge: Studies in Global Asias 8, no. 2 (2022): 119-143.

Talks/Presentations

"What Do Asian Americans Smell Like?: Biopolitics of Race and Gender in Anicka Yi’s Olfactory Works,” College Art Association, March 2022

“Constructing Asian American Political and Aesthetic Subjectivities: Contradictions in the Works of Ruth Asawa,” College Art Association, February 2021

“Performing Gender: Ma Liuming’s Naked Body as a Site of Contention and Freedom,” College Art Association, February 2020

office hours
spring 2024

Tuesday, Thursday 2:30-4:00 pm
or by appointment