B.A. Art History Rutgers University

M.A. Art History Northwestern University

Ph.D. Art History University of Southern California

Professor Klein teaches a variety of courses included Contemporary Art, Gender and Representation, Modern Art, History of Photography, Performance Art and Theory, and Queer Theory and Visual Representation. Professor Klein also chairs the scholarship committee for the School of Art, the Director of Studies for the Honors Tutorial Program in Art History, and the Chair of the Women’s Studies Colloquium Committee.

Professor Klein’s primary areas of research lie in contemporary art, art criticism, feminist art, and performance art. She is a contributing editor for Art Papers and Performance Art Journal (PAJ), and a member of the editorial board of Genders. She has published in n.paradoxa, Art History, New Art Examiner, and Afterimage. Professor Klein is the editor of Linda Montano, Letters from Linda M. Montano (London: Routledge, 2005), the co-curator, along with Rebecca McGrew, of The 21st Century Odyssey: The Performance Work of Barbara T. Smith, and the co-curator, along with Myrel Chernick, of Maternal Metaphors: Artists, Mothers, Art work. Professor Klein has also written several catalogue essays, including the primary essays for The 21st Century Odyssey and Maternal Metaphors. She is currently collaborating with Dr. Deidre Heddon of the University of Glasgow on a History of Live Art in the UK and the catalogue for the National Review of Live Art.

Professor Klein has presented widely on performance, art and contemporary art. In Fall 2007 she was invited to give a talk “Sited Bodies” at the ANTI Festival in Kuopio, Finland. She chaired a panel at the National Review of Live Art, Scotland entitled “Performance Art: Other Histories.” She has presented at College Art Association on several occasions. In 2008 she will be chairing a panel on the ANTI Festival for PSI in Copenhagen. In 2009, she will be co-chairing a panel along with Sylvie Fortin, editor of Art Papers, entitled Art Criticism, Art History, and Art Magazines for the College Art Association.

Professor Klein has been awarded a number of grants, including an 1804 grant in 2005 to underwrite the Live Art Symposium that took place at Ohio University. Artists included Holly Hughes, Danielle Abrams, Tommy Mintz, Malcolm Tulip, Ricardo Bracho, Anthony Wills, and Barbara T. Smith.

Live Art & New Genre Art at OU