Mary Jo Aagerstoun is a Ph.D. candidate in Art History at the University of Maryland, College Park, where she is also working toward her Certificate in Women's Studies. Her dissertation working title is: "The Gendered Monstrous in U. S. Activist Art of the 1980s and 1990s." She received the David Lloyd Kreeger Prize for Excellence in Art History from George Washington University and has lectured at the National Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian Institution, the national conferences of the Women's Caucus for Art and of the College Art Association, and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County on feminism and art history, and on abject art. In 1999 she edited a special issue of the online journal massage on the "monstrous feminine," and chaired a panel on this topic at the annual Barnard Feminist Art and Art History Conference. In 1996 she was a Museum Fellow at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, working with the museum's New Media curator, Philip Brookman, on the performance/exhibition of Guillermo Gómez Peña's Temple of Confessions and a retrospective exhibition of the photographs of Gordon Parks. A longtime feminist activist, she is a founding board member of NOMADS, a Washington, D.C.-based curatorial project that specializes in web-based art exhibitions and criticism. She also organized the 10-site exhibition of Judy Chicago's Birth Project in Washington, DC in 1986, and served on the board of Judy Chicago's organization Through the Flower for several years.

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