Associate Chair, Assistant Professor
Office: College Hall C200D
Phone: (703)993-4554
Email: lconstan@gmu.edu
Office Hours: By Appointment

Professional Activities:
An academic researcher in visual culture, critical theory and performance who is also a performance/installation artist and photographer, Lynne Constantine work focuses her work on the human body as cultural object, as source of identity and memory and as site of art-making. In particular, she is concerned with the body under siege-in pain, in danger, in confinement, and in the process of extreme modifications (voluntary or involuntary). She has recently presented her research at the annual national meeting of the Women's Caucus for Art and at conferences in the fields of cultural studies and continental philosophy, and she is working on a dissertation on violence in visual culture. She also is a widely published writer and has, in a varied career, taught medieval English literature; headed two nonprofits; freelanced as a journalist, speechwriter, ghostwriter and book reviewer; and co-founded a communications consulting firm.

Selected Exhibitions:
Eye to I to Eye to I,
collaborative multimedia performance (February 2002)
Seven Stones and a Glass House,
collaborative multimedia performance (January 2001)
Civil (Union) Disobedience,
collaborative interactive performance (August 2000)
The Truth Game: Stop, Look, (Don't) Play, collaborative installation/performance (January 2000).

Education:
PhD student, Cultural Studies, George Mason University
M.Phil., M.A., English Language and Literature
Yale University
B.A. summa cum laude, English and Philosophy,
Canisius College

Selected Reviews and other Publications:
The Baltimore Sun, the Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, Belles Lettres, Washington Review of Books, Woman's Monthly, Government Computer News, Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association; co-author, Migraine: The Complete Guide (Dell, 1994).