Christopher Cutrone, PhD, is a college educator, writer, and media artist, committed to critical thinking and artistic practice and the politics of social emancipation from a Marxist perspective. Cutrone is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Departments of Art History, Theory and Criticism and Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and instructor at the Institute for Clinical Social Work. He was a longtime lecturer in the Social Sciences Collegiate Division at the University of Chicago, where he completed the PhD in the Committee on the History of Culture and MA in Art History. He received the MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the BA from Hampshire College. His doctoral dissertation is on Adorno’s Marxism. He’s published several collections of essays, including Marxism in the Age of Trump (2018), The Death of the Millennial Left (2023), Marxism and Politics (2024), and Art and Marxism (2024).  

AREAS OF INTEREST & APPROACHES TO PRACTICE 

Critical Social Theory, Aesthetic Theory, Philosophy  

Professional Memberships and Affiliations:  

• American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work (AAPCSW) 

• Michigan Council for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (MCPP) 

EDUCATION

• BA, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA  

• MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago  

• MA and PhD, University of Chicago  

Dissertation

EMAIL: ccutrone@icsw.edu

PHONE: (630) 728-5313