Christine Poggi earned her degrees from the University of Chicago (M.A., 1979) and Yale University (Ph.D.,1988) and has been teaching modern and contemporary art history at Penn since 1987.  She has also served on the Modern and Contemporary Committee at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, has collaborated on various programs sponsored by the Institute of Contemporary Art, and serves on the board of Women's Studies and Italian Studies at Penn.

Professor Poggi's research has centered on the work of Picasso, Cubism, Futurism, the rise of abstraction, art made under fascist Italy, the art of the sixties and seventies, and performance art.  She is the author of In Defiance of Painting: Cubism, Futurism, and the Invention of Collage (Yale University Press, 1992), and numerous articles on modern European and American art.

Professor Poggi has received fellowship support from the Fulbright Commission, the Association of University Women, the NEH, the Dedalus Foundation, the Salvatori Fund, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and other institutions.  Current projects include a series of articles on the image of crowds and masses in modern art, and on the contemporary public monument.  She is also completing a book titled: Modernity as Trauma: The Cultural Politics of Italian Futurism.

Memberships in other Graduate Groups:

Comparative Literature and Literary Theory

Adjunct Professor:

Annenberg School