William Wylie, Commonwealth Professor of Art, has been directing the photography program at UVA since 2000. He received a Mead Honored Faculty Award at UVA in 2003 and has been the director of the Study Abroad Program in Italy since 2007. He was Director of Studio Art for eight years. His photographs and films have been shown both nationally and internationally and can be found in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Art, and Yale University Art Museum, among others. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in photography in 2005, a VMFA Professional Fellowship for 2011 and was the Doran Artist in Residence in Italy through the Sol LeWitt Foundation and the Yale University Art Museum in 2012 and 2015. He has been an Artist in Residence at the American Academy in Rome and the Center for Land Use Interpretation in Utah. Wylie has published six books of his photographic work: Riverwalk (2000), Stillwater (2002), Carrara (2009), Route 36 (2010), Pompeii Archive (2018) and A Prairie Season (2020). His forthcoming book, The Eighty-Eight, Photographs from a Japanese Pilgrimage will be published in February 2026.