An artist-theorist and historian, Jill H. Casid holds the appointment of Professor of Visual Studies in the Departments of Art History and Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Casid is bringing to completion Doing Things with Being Undone in the Necrocene, the first part of a two-book project on Form at the Edges of Life. Casid is the author of Sowing Empire: Landscape and Colonization (Minnesota, 2005), Scenes of Projection: Recasting the Enlightenment Subject (Minnesota, 2015) which is in Spanish translation (Metales Pesados, 2022), and the co-edited collection Art History in the Wake of the Global Turn (Yale, 2014). Casid’s artwork has been exhibited nationally and internationally.

Pamela Sneed is a New York based poet, performer and visual artist. She is the author of Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom Than Slavery, Funeral Diva, which was featured in the New York Times and won the 2021 Lambda Lesbian Poetry Award, and other books. She is a 2023 Creative Capital awardee in literature and has also won the Black Queer Art Mentorship Award and a BOFFO Residency. Sneed has published in The Paris Review, Frieze, and others publications. She is a professor at SAIC, where she has been a guest artist for several years, and she teaches across disciplines in Columbia University’s MFA program. Her performance, A Tribute to Big Mama Thornton, was at Joe’s Pub March 1 & 2, 2024.