Jae Emerling is professor of Modern and Contemporary Art in the College of Arts + Architecture at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. He is the author of Theory for Art History (second edition, 2019) and Photography: History and Theory (2012). He is also an editor of the Journal of Visual Culture. His work has appeared in Radical Philosophy, History of Photography, CAA Reviews, and the Journal of Art Historiography. His latest book Transmissibility: Writing Aesthetic History (2023) has just been published.