Amelia Jones is the Robert A. Day Professor at the USC Roski School of Art and Design in Los Angeles. She has taught and lectured internationally at institutions such as the University of Manchester, the Sorbonne in Paris, the University of Auckland in Aotearoa New Zealand, and McGill University in Montréal, Canada. She has researched, curated, and written about modern and contemporary art and performance from a queer feminist theoretical framework since the early 1990s and is an expert on art history, visual theory, performance studies, performance art, and queer/trans/feminist theory and art. Recent publications include the catalogue Queer Communion: Ron Athey (2020), co-edited with Andy Campbell (accompanying a retrospective of Athey’s work, which she curated); and In Between Subjects: A Critical Genealogy of Queer Performance (2021). She is currently writing a book entitled Lifework (Against Cultural Capitalism), which addresses the structural racism and neoliberalism of the twenty-first century art world and university and creative responses to these pressures, as well as organizing a survey exhibition and catalogue of the work of Ken Gonzales-Day, entitled Ken Gonzales-Day: History’s “Nevermade” (2025-26 at the Fisher Museum, Los Angeles).