Born in 1961 in North Carolina, Amelia Jones has lived and taught in Los Angeles, Manchester (UK), and Montréal, Québec. She is currently Robert A. Day Professor of Art and Design at the Roski School of Art and Design at University of Southern California. She is a writer, curator, and teacher. Her recent publications include essays on performance art histories and theories, queer feminist art and theory, and feminist curating. In 2012 she published Perform Repeat Record: Live Art in History, co-edited with Adrian Heathfield and a single authored book Seeing Differently: A History and Theory of Identification and the Visual Arts. The anthology Sexuality was published in 2014 as part of the Whitechapel Gallery (London) Documents series. Her exhibition Material Traces: Time and the Gesture in Contemporary Art took place in 2013 at Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery, Concordia University, in Montreal.