Hal Foster is the Townsend Martin Class of 1917 Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University, where he teaches and publishes in the areas of modernist and contemporary art, architecture, and theory. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Foster is a founding editor of Zone Magazine and Zone Books, and he writes regularly for October (which he coedits), Artforum, and The London Review of Books. He has been the Siemens Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin and the Paul Mellon Senior Fellow at the National Gallery of Art in Washington.