Dr. Jordana Moore Saggese is an Associate Professor of American Art. Her work centers on modern and contemporary American visual culture with an emphasis on expressions and theorizations of blackness. Her writing has appeared in Exposure: The Journal of the Society for Photographic Education, The International Review of African-American Art, nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, and Art Journal. She has also published work online for Artforum, CAA Reviews, and Khan Academy. Her first book Reading Basquiat: Exploring Ambivalence in American Art (University of California Press, 2014), which reexamines the painting practice of the often-mythologized 1980s art star Jean-Michel Basquiat, received the PEN Center USA Award for Exceptional First Book in 2015. Dr. Saggese's second book The Basquiat Reader: A Critical Anthology will be published by the University of California Press as part of the "Documents of Contemporary Art" series edited by Jack Flam. Through a combination of interviews with the artist, hard-to-find articles, and previously unpublished research by the author, The Basquiat Reader provides a full picture of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s views on art and culture, his working process, as well as the critical significance of his work both then and now. Dr. Saggese's current book project Game On: The Black Male Boxer in American Art and Culture maps the visual terrain of racial ideology in the United States, paying particular attention to the intersecting discourses of blackness, masculinity, and sport. She is Editor-in-Chief for the College Art Association's Art Journal.