Ting Chang Bio

Ting Chang is an art historian who has previously taught at the University of Sussex in England and the University of Toronto and McGill University in Canada. She received B.A. in art history from McGill University, Canada, M.A. from the University of Toronto, and Ph.D. at the University of Sussex, England. At Carnegie Mellon she is teaching a new course on ‘the critical histories of the arts’. She has published on art collecting and display strategies in nineteenth-century France. Her book manuscript in progress examines certain European travelers and collectors of Asia art and the formation of museums of Asian artifacts in Paris, notably the Musée Cernuschi and the Musée Guimet, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her past teaching includes undergraduate and graduate courses in methodology, theories of collecting, collections, museums and exhibitions, late eighteenth-century European painting and visual culture, nineteenth-century European painting and postcolonial studies.

	*Ting Chang, Assistant Professor in the Critical Histories of the Arts*
	Ting Chang is an art historian who has previously taught at the University of Sussex in England and the University of Toronto and McGill University in Canada. She received B.A. in art history from McGill University, Canada, M.A. from the University of Toronto, and Ph.D. at the University of Sussex, England. At Carnegie Mellon she is teaching a new course on ‘the critical histories of the arts’. She has published on art collecting and display strategies in nineteenth-century France. Her book manuscript in progress examines certain European travelers and collectors of Asia art and the formation of museums of Asian artifacts in Paris, notably the Musée Cernuschi and the Musée Guimet, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her past teaching includes undergraduate and graduate courses in methodology, theories of collecting, collections, museums and exhibitions, late eighteenth-century European painting and visual culture, nineteenth-century European painting and postcolonial studies.