Andrei Pop

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), A Forest of Symbols: Art, Science, and Truth in the Long Nineteenth Century (2019), and Fregean Realism: Frodo Lives! and Other Fictions (2025). He edited Ugliness: The Non-Beautiful in Art and Theory (2013) and translated Karl Rosenkranz’s 1853 Aesthetics of Ugliness (2015), both with Mechtild Widrich.