Visual & Media Arts Faculty

Cher Knight

Associate Professor (2002)
B.A. Rutgers University, M.A. City University of New York, Ph.D. Temple University

Cher Krause Knight is an art historian focused on modern and contemporary art and architecture. She is also a specialist in museum studies, with an emphasis on curatorial theory.

Dr. Knight has published her work in a variety of sources, including Analecta Husserliana: The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research, the Journal of American and Comparative Cultures, Visual Resources, and American Art Review. She has contributed essays to the anthologies Blaze: Discourse on Art, Women and Feminism (2007, Cambridge Scholars Publishing), and Reclaiming the Spiritual in Art: Contemporary Cross-Cultural Perspectives (1999, SUNY Press). Professor Knight has also authored three books: An Independent Spirit: The Art and Life of R.A.D. Miller (2009, James A. Michener Museum of Art); Public Art: Theory, Practice and Populism (2008, Blackwell Publishing); and Louis Bosa: A Keen Eye and a Kind Heart (2005, James A. Michener Museum of Art). She has been twice awarded the Gemmill Research Fellowship at the Michener Museum in Doylestown, PA, and was Emerson College's 2006-2007 recipient of the Mann Stearns Distinguished Faculty Award. Dr. Knight is a co-founder, and currently serves as co-chair, of the Public Art Dialogue, a professional organization devoted to providing an interdisciplinary, critical forum for that field.