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Jillian Hernandez
Associate Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies University of FloridaBio
Jillian Hernandez, Ph.D. is a curator and scholar of contemporary visual art, popular culture, and style. Her book Aesthetics of Excess: The Art and Politics of Black and Latina Embodiment was published by Duke University Press and she is currently working on a second book project, High Maintenance Feminism, that examines how artists and cultural workers are asserting value and demanding care in a post-2020 context. A public-facing scholar, Hernandez has launched Full Set Project, a team of researchers who study and document the impact of nail culture (@fullsetproject) and the video podcast FEM STUDY on her YouTube channel. She has contributed to the exhibition catalogue for The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century and the book Documenting the Nameplate: Jewelry, Culture, and Identity. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at the University of Florida.