Thomas Love

Thomas Love is a PhD candidate in the Department of Art History at Northwestern University and a lecturer in Art History at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He works at the intersection of contemporary art history, German studies, gender and sexuality studies, and critical race theory. His dissertation examines exoticism among queer subcultures in post-1960s West Germany, arguing that queer identity was constructed around representations of difference rooted in colonial power dynamics. His research has been supported by grants from the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), the Fulbright Program, and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), as well as fellowships in the Paris Program in Critical Theory and the Whitney Independent Study Program.