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Nicole L. Woods is a historian of modern and contemporary art history, criticism, and critical theory at the University of Notre Dame. Her research focus on the Euro-American neo-avant-gardes, performance and conceptual art, gender studies, taste cultures, and the history of photography.  Her current book project is the first in-depth study of the diverse practice of pioneering Fluxus artist, Alison Knowles (under contract, University of Chicago Press). She is the scholar-curator for the first retrospective of Knowles’s life and work (Berkeley Art Museum, fall 2020). A second book project surveys the convergence of feminism, political radicalism, and expanded media practices in the late 1960s-1970s. Woods’s current research also includes a consideration of the widespread use of food as an object of consumption and critique in the work of several visual artists, including Martha Rosler, Gordon Matta-Clark, Bonnie Shirk, and Rirkrit Tiravanija. Her essays and criticism have appeared in Art Journal, Performance Research, X-TRA: A Contemporary Art Quarterly, Radical Philosophy, caa.reviews, and the Walker Art Center.