Julia Bryan-Wilson’s research interests include questions of artistic labour, feminism, queer theory, fabrication/production, performance, visual culture of the nuclear age, photography, and textile handicraft. A scholar and critic, Bryan-Wilson has written about artists such Laylah Ali, Ida Applebroog, Sadie Benning, the Cockettes, Simone Forti, Cristóbal Lehyt, Ana Mendieta, Yvonne Rainer, Yoko Ono, Harmony Hammond, Sharon Hayes, and Anne Wilson, in numerous publications. She is the author of Art Workers: Radical Practice in the Vietnam War Era (2009), which was named a “best book of the year” by Artforum magazine, editor of OCTOBER Files: Robert Morris, and, with Glenn Adamson, co-author of Art in the Making: Artists and Their Materials from the Studio to Crowdsourcing. She is an associate professor of modern and contemporary art at the University of California, Berkeley.