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(first name: "Kyle", he/him)

Dr. Cyle Metzger is currently Associate Chair, Assistant Professor, Director of Art History, and founding Director of the Museum Studies Minor in the Art and Design Department at Bradley University. He is co-executive editor of Panorama, the journal of the Association of Historians of American Art. Dr. Metzger has published widely in the field of American art with a specific focus on trans materialisms in 20th Century  Post-War art. His scholarship has appeared in American Art, Art Journal, MoMA Magazine, Archives of American Art Journal, Journal of Visual Culture, Transgender Studies Quarterly, and Feminist Studies. His forthcoming book is titled Deep Cuts: Trans Plasticity in 20th Century American Art after World War II ​(manuscript under review). He is at work on a second collaborative project with Dr. Jason Weems that addresses the legacy of New Deal policies on the appearance of disability in the last one-hundred years of American art. 

​Dr. Metzger received his PhD in Art History with a minor in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Stanford University in 2021. He earned an MA in the History of Art from the University of California, Riverside in 2015 and an MFA in interdisciplinary studio art from the Mount Royal School of Art at the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2010. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Bennington College in 2008.

Dr. Metzger is the founder of AEGIS ADAPTIVE and principal designer of AEGIS ARMOR, the first commercially available portable, hard sided protective wheelchair case. You can learn more about this company and product at aegisadaptive.com. He also continues to make art.