Andrei Pop studied art history at Stanford and Harvard and taught at the University of Vienna and the University of Basel before joining the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago in 2015. His books include Antiquity, Theatre, and the Painting of Henry Fuseli (2015), an edited volume on ugliness in art history with Mechtild Widrich (2014), and a cotranslation of Karl Rosenkranz's Aesthetics of Ugliness (2015). He recently published A Forest of Symbols: Art, Science, and Truth in the long Nineteenth Century.