Vivien Green Fryd teaches American art from the colonial period to the present, as well as courses in nineteenth-century European art, methods in art history, American Studies, and gender studies. She is the author of Art and Empire: The Politics of Ethnicity in the United States Capitol, 1815-1865 (Ohio University Press, 2001; reprint Yale University Press, 1992) and Art and the Crisis of Marriage: Georgia O'Keeffe and Edward Hopper (University of Chicago Press, 2003). She is currently writing a book manuscript entitled, Rape: Imaging and Imagining Sexual Violence in American Art and has completed rough drafts of three chapters: "The 'Ghosting' of Incest and Same-Sex Relationships in Harriet Hosmer's Beatrice Cenci," "Ending the Silence over Rape and Incest: Suzanne Lacy's Performances of the 1970s," and "Domestic Violence, Rape, and Incest in Judy Chicago's At Home Project. She has written articles in The American Art Journal, The Winterthur Portfolio, and American Art, among other journals, and has essays in a number of edited books, including Critical Issues in Public Art: Content, Context, and Controversy, ed. Harriet F. Senie and Sally Webster (HarperCollins, 1992), Critical Issues in American Art, ed. Mary Ann Calo (Westivew Press, 1998), and Reading Country Music: Steel Guitars, Opry Stars, and Honky-Tonk Bars, ed;. Cecelia Tichi (Duke University Press, 1998).