Jocelyn E. Marshall
Assistant Professor of Art History
Phone: 813.974.2360
Email: jocelynmarshall@usf.edu
Office: FAH 240
Dr. Jocelyn E. Marshall is Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art History and Affiliate Faculty in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Their interdisciplinary research focuses on late-20th- and 21st-century art and visual culture, specializing in experimental, ephemeral, and time-based media with an emphasis on U.S.-based diasporic, women, and LGBTQ+ artists. Her work is guided by interests in aesthetic-poetic tensions, complexities with articulation and embodiment, and formal and conceptual interventions addressing histories of marginalization, silencing, and erasure.
Dr. Marshall is a 2026-27 Visiting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies, and she previously was a Postdoctoral Fellow supported by the American Association of University Women and a Dissertation Scholar at Brandeis University’s Women’s Studies Research Center. Their projects have been supported by the Mark Diamond Research Foundation, New York Public Library, and John Burton Harter Foundation, among others, and she is an alum of: The New School’s Institute for Critical Social Inquiry, Duke University’s Feminist Theory Workshop, Dartmouth College’s Futures of American Studies Institute, Cornell University’s School of Criticism and Theory, and the University of Rochester’s Susan B. Anthony Institute Writing Collective. Their dissertation won the 2024 National Women’s Studies Association - University of Illinois Press First Book Award and the 2023 College Art Association’s Professional Development Fellowship in Art History Honorable Mention.
Her work is featured in Art Journal Open, Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Public Art Dialogue, Journal of American Culture, Tripwire: A Journal of Poetics, and elsewhere. Early research won Outstanding Graduate Paper Awards from both the Journal of American Culture (William M. Jones Award, 2019) and the Journal of Popular Culture (William E. Brigman Award, 2019). In 2022, she edited a collection on Trauma-Informed Pedagogy: Addressing Gender-Based Violence in the Classroom (Emerald Publishing), and one of their current book projects, tentatively titled Dissent Nearby: Diasporic Feminism & U.S. Imperialism, is under advance contract with the University of Illinois Press. Other books in progress include the first academic monograph dedicated to Haitian-African-American performance artist-writer Gabrielle Civil and a study of contemporary queer artists’ somatic and spiritual approaches to historical trauma and traumatic experiences.
Dr. Marshall’s service appointments and curatorial and editorial work center LGBTQ+ and BIPOC feminist contemporary art, film, new media, and performance, such as with the exhibitions Being In-Between | In-Between Being (UB Art Galleries, 2020-21), for which she received the 2022 LEAD Award for Pride & Service from the University at Buffalo-SUNY, and Creativity in the Time of Covid-19 - Buffalo NY (multi-site, 2023), which was supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Just Futures Initiative. In Spring 2023, they edited a multimedia, multi-genre issue of Rutgers University’s feminist journal Rejoinder, themed “Textual-Sexual-Spiritual: Artistic Practice and Other Rituals as Queer Becoming and Beyond.” She previously Co-Chaired the Gender & Feminisms Caucus at the Society for Cinema & Media Studies (2023-25) and served on the College Art Association's Committee on Women in the Arts (2020-23), where they co-led the Feminist Interview Project. She presently serves on the Editorial Board of Art Journal.
For advisement, they welcome students in the following areas: contemporary art history and visual culture; intersections of art and activism, especially feminist and LGBTQ+ interventions; histories of migration and diasporic displacement; postcolonial, transnational, and/or decolonial studies; gender and sexuality studies; queer and feminist theory; curation and museum studies; and digital and public humanities. Note: Dr. Marshall is on leave Fall 2026.