Justin Wolff

Justin Wolff is a Professor of Art History in the Department of Art at the University of Maine. He teaches courses on American, modern, and contemporary art, as well as art theory and criticism. His research focuses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century American art and visual culture as well as topics in contemporary art.

Justin is a member of the Graduate Faculty and serves on thesis and dissertation committees in Intermedia Programs, the M.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies program, and the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. program. He served as director of the McGillicuddy Humanities Center at the University of Maine from 2012-2014 and as Chair of the Department of Art from 2019-2020 and 2021-2026.

Before coming to UMaine, Justin worked as a journalist, taught in the Expository Writing Program at Harvard University, and served as the Joanne Leonhardt Cassullo Assistant Professor of Art History at Roanoke College in Virginia. He was a National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellow in 2005-2006.

Justin’s current research focuses on cultures of catastrophe and the aesthetics of “brokenness.”