Susan Ryan specializes in twentieth-century art and new media history and theory and the history of design, and teaches at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. She earned her BA from Rutgers University, and both her MA and PhD in art history from The University of Michigan. Professor Ryan has produced and curated two exhibitions at the LSU School of Art Gallery: Dream-Work: Robert Indiana Prints (1997) and The Sight of Time: Robert Cahen Video at LSU (1999, with Professor Adelaide Russo). She Recently she collaborated with Professor Darius Spieth to mount a major exhibition of contemporary art entitled: Beyond East and West, shown at the LSU Museum of Art in 2004. Susan has produced two books focusing on artists' autobiographical practice. She assembled, edited, and annotated Marsden Hartley's autobiography Somehow a Past, (MIT Press, 1996 and 1998), and wrote Robert Indiana: Figures of Speech (Yale University Press, 2000). Ryan's writings have been published in numerous journals and catalogs. She is currently doing research on the changing nature of art practices and creative self -images of artists working in digital and web-based formats.