Mark Pohlad

Mark B. Pohlad (he/him) is an associate professor in the History of Art and Architecture department at DePaul University. He earned his PhD from the University of Delaware and teaches courses on modern and American art and on Chicago topics. In 2017, Pohlad facilitate the discussion of Harriet Monroe’s art criticism at the Newberry Library seminar “Making Modernism: Literature and Culture in Twentieth-Century Chicago, 1893–1955,” led by Liesl Olson.

Pohlad’s research has involved local historical artists and photographers, often in connection to poetry and literature. His first book, James R. Hopkins: Faces of the Heartland from Trillium Press/Columbus Museum of Art in 2017, was a monograph on the Ohio painter James Roy Hopkins (1877–1969). Pohlad is currently researching Abraham Lincoln’s connections to Chicago, including his time there and the ways the city remembered him, for a book forthcoming from Southern Illinois University Press.