Jackson Pollock's Post-Ritual Performance: Memories Arrested in Space

Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she is also director of a faculty research group on Performance and Visual Culture. Author of The Absolute Artist: The Historiography of a Concept (University of Minnesota Press, 1997), editor of Jewish Identity in Modern Art History (University of California Press, 1999), Sousloff has written recently on feminism and film in Maya Deren and the American Avant-Garde (University of California Press, 2001); Expressionist portraiture and Jewish identity in Diasporas and Exiles (University of California Press, 2002). An essay on the future of visual and performance studies recently appeared in Social Text (73:4, 2003; coauthored with Mark Franko). Her current book projects address the subject in early 20th century Viennese art and interdisciplinarity and art history.