Tiffany Wu

Tiffany Wu studies modern and contemporary art. Her interests span feminist performance practices, new media, urban politics and aesthetics, and East/Southeast Asian diasporas. As a 2024-2026 Herchel Smith Fellow, she completed an MPhil in History of Art and an MPhil in Film Studies at the University of Cambridge. Her History of Art dissertation proposed a framework of the “glare” to explore how contemporary multimedia artists trouble the public/private divide; it received the department’s Highest Distinction Award. She holds a BA from Williams College, where she majored in Art History and concentrated in Environmental Studies. Her senior honors thesis about Haw Par Villa, an allegedly haunted sculpture garden in Singapore, received the S. Lane Faison, Jr. 1929 Prize. Beyond academia, her poems are published in Black Warrior Review, The Offing, Sine Theta Magazine, Rattle, Asian American Writers’ Workshop’s The Margins, and elsewhere.