Marcel Dzama: The Course of Human History Personified

Jason Rosenfeld, Ph.D., is a professor of art history at Marymount Manhattan College, New York, and a senior writer and editor-at-large at The Brooklyn Rail. He is the coauthor of a monograph on Cecily Brown and author of a monograph on John Everett Millais. He was curator of Ben Wilson: From Social Realism to Abstraction, at the George Segal Gallery, Montclair State University, New Jersey, and co-curator of exhibitions including River Crossings at Cedar Grove, the Thomas Cole National Historical Site, Catskill, New York, and Olana, Hudson, New York; Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde at Tate Britain, London, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, the State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, the Mori Arts Center Gallery, Tokyo, and the Palazzo Chiablese, Turin; and John Everett Millais at Tate Britain, the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, the Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Fukuoka, and the Bunkamura Museum, Tokyo, Japan.

Jason Tougaw is a writer, literature professor, and DJ who lives between New York City and the Catsksills. He’s currently finishing a memoir, The One You Get, a portrait of the artist and his family as social and biological organisms learning how to live. “Aplysia californica,” an excerpt from the memoir, is published in Boys to Men: Gay Men Write About Growing up(Da Capo Press). Tougaw is also the author of Strange Cases: The Medical Case History and the British Novel (Routledge) and editor, with Nancy K. Miller, of Extremities: Trauma, Testimony, and Community (University of Illinois Press). He has published essays in a/b: Autobiography Studies, JAC, The Scholar and the Feminist, and Feed magazine. He teaches literature and writing at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center. You can hear his weekly radio show, “The Mixtape,” on 90.5 WJFF Radio Catskill.