Jessi DiTillio (Austin, TX) is a curator, writer, and art historian. She is a 2019-2020 Luce/ACLS American Art Dissertation Fellow and a doctoral candidate in art history at the University of Texas at Austin. She is a co-founding member of the curatorial group Neon Queen Collective. Her research focuses on modern and contemporary American art through the lenses of affect theory, critical race studies, and feminism.