Gannit Ankori is professor of art history and theory in the Departments of Fine Arts and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and the Schusterman Center, at Brandeis University. She is the author of Imaging Her Selves: Frida Kahlo's Poetics of Identity and Fragmentation and Frida Kahlo: Art, Life, Diary; Palestinian Art. She is the interim director and chief curator of the Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University.