Jennifer Doyle is a Professor of English and Cooperating Faculty in Art. She is the author of Shadow of My Shadow (2024), Campus Sex/Campus Security (2015),Hold It Against Me: Difficulty and Emotion in Contemporary Art (2013) and Sex Objects: Art and the Dialectics of Desire (2007). She is co-editor of Pop Out: Queer Warhol (1996).
She and Jeanne Vaccaro (University of Kansas) are the co-curators of Scientia Sexualis, an exhibition for ICA LA which will run from early October through early March. She and Vaccaro are co-editors of the accompanying catalogue, which features essays by Joan Lubin, Hil Malatino, Amber Musser, Eva Hayward and interviews between Doyle, Vaccaro, and C. Riley Snorton; Leticia Alvarado and King Cobra (documented as Doreen Lynette Garner), and Michelle Raheja and Andrea Carlton. Scientia Sexualis is part of Pacific Standard Time: Art & Science Collide, a regional festival sponsored and organized by The Getty Foundation.
She guest curatedThe Tip of Her Tongue, a seven-performance series for The Broad Museum (2015-2017) Nao Bustamante: Soldadera (2015) for the Vincent Price Art Museum, and I Feel Different, a group exhibition for LACE (2010). In 2018, she curated Ron Athey’s Gifts of the Spirit, working with producing partners Volume and The Broad, and co-curated Aqui No Hay Virgenes: Latina Lesbian Visibility for the Advocate Gallery and LACE (2007). She is President of the Board of Directors at Human Resources Los Angeles. She is the 2013-2014 Distinguished Fulbright Professor at the University of the Arts, London, and is a recipient of an Arts Writers Grant.