About Lynn
Lynn M. Somers (Ph.D. Stony Brook University, NY) is a scholar of modern and contemporary art history
and criticism and adjunct assistant professor at Drew University (Madison, NJ). Publications include “A
Taste for Sham: Examples of Perversion and Suffering in Contemporary Art,”
Dialectical Conversions:Donald Kuspit’s Art Criticism (Liverpool University Press, 2011); essays in the online
RoutledgeEncyclopedia of Modernism (UK, 2017); essays in the
Encyclopedia of Twentieth-CenturyPhotography (Routledge, 2005); and
The Encyclopedia of Sculpture (Routledge, 2003). She has presented
research on Walker Evans, "Surveillance in the Space Between Literature and Culture, 1914–1945", McGill
University, Montreal (2016); Louise Bourgeois and domesticity, "At Home in the Space Between Literature
and Culture, 1914–1945", University of Notre Dame (2015); and Bourgeois and psychoanalysis at the
National Gallery of Modern Art, Scotland, Edinburgh and The Fruitmarket Gallery (2014), among others.
Somers is currently writing a book on transitional phenomena and the aesthetics of play in Louise
Bourgeois’s sculpture.