Juli Carson is Professor of Art at the University of California, Irvine, where she directs the Critical and Curatorial Area in the Department of Art. She is also Director of UCI’s University Art Galleries. From 2018-2019 she was Philippe Jabre Professor of Art History and Curating in the Department of Fine Art and Art History at the American University of Beirut, where she curated the exhibition caesura_a moment in time, again rubbed smooth. Her books on the convergence of psychoanalysis, hermeneutics and conceptual art include: Exile of the Imaginary: Politics, Aesthetics, Love (Vienna: Generali Foundation, 2007), The Limits of Representation: Psychoanalysis and Critical Aesthetics (Buenos Aires: Letra Viva Press, 2011) and The Hermeneutic Impulse: Aesthetics of an Untethered Past (Berlin: PoLyPen, b_books Press, 2019).  Her latest book is Mary Kelly’s Concentric Pedagogy. Selected Writings, (UK: Bloomsbury Press, 2024). She is also author of the website https://pharmakon.art/, which hosts the Life Worth Living Series — a rotation of conversations among filmmakers, artists and scholars on contemporary cultural phenomenon — as well as an archive of Carson’s select exhibitions and essays.