Jasmina Tumbas (PhD, Art History, Duke University) is an Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art History and Performance Studies in the Department of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University at Buffalo and Contributing Editor for ASAP/J. Her teaching and research fields focus on modern and contemporary art history and theory, histories and theories of performance, body and conceptual art, art and activism, feminist art, and critical theory. She is currently finishing her book, I Am Jugoslovenka! A Visual Exegesis of Women’s Emancipation During & After Yugoslav Socialism. Her research has appeared in ArtMargins, Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies, and Art and Documentation/Sztuka i Dokumentacja, Art in America, and Art Monthly, along with being featured in the anthologies Shifting Corporealities in Contemporary Performance: Danger, Im/mobility, and Politics, and Performing Arts in the Second Public Sphere. In Buffalo, Tumbas curated Selma Selman’s first U.S. solo show at Dreamland, an exhibition that traveled to Vienna, Austria. She also serves on the Board of Directors of Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center.
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