VSRI Lecture by K.L.H. Wellls

Event details Date: Friday, October 2, 2026 Time: 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM Location: SOS 250 Type: Lecture / Talk / Workshop Campus: University Park Campus Department: Visual Studies Research Institute (VSRI), Campus Humanities Audience: Students, Alumni, Faculty/Staff About this event K. L. H. Wells is Associate Professor of American Art and Architecture at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where her research focuses on the politics of decorative art and design. Her newest book Uncanny Revivals: Designing an American Identity (Yale University Press, 2026) explores the uncanny aesthetics and White nationalist politics of colonial revival design in the 1930s and 1940s United States. Wells earned her PhD in Art History at USC in 2014 and adapted her doctoral dissertation into the award-winning book Weaving Modernism: Postwar Tapestry between Paris and New York (Yale University Press, 2019). She has also published in American Art, Archives of American Art Journal, Artforum, Art Journal, and Visual Resources. Official event details: https://calendar.usc.edu/event/vsri-lecture-by-klh-wellls