Jessi DiTillio is a curator, writer, art historian, and a co-founding member of Neon Queen Collective. She received her PhD from the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin, and was 2019-2020 ACLS/Luce Foundation American Art Dissertation Fellow. She researches 20th century American Art with a focus on African American artists, affect theory, gender and sexuality, and contemporary art engaging the politics of difference.