Jennifer Doyle is a Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. She is the author of Shadow of My Shadow (2024), Campus Sex/Campus Security (2015), Hold It Against Me: Difficult and Emotion in Contemporary Art (2013) and Sex Objects: Art and the Dialectics of Desire (2006). She is co-editor (with Jeanne Vaccaro) of Scientia Sexualis, the catalog for their exhibition of the same title which they curated for ICA LA (2024-2025). She is the 2025 President of the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present and was the 2013-2014 Fulbright Distinguished Chair at the University of the Arts, London.