Amy Bryzgel is a Teaching Professor of Art History and Visual Culture in the Art + Design Department at Northeastern University. She is currently Associate Chair of the department. She is an expert on performance art in East-Central Europe and the author of three books on the topic: Performing the East: Performance Art in Russia, Latvia and Poland since 1980 (IB Tauris, 2013), Miervaldis Polis (Latvia, Neptune, 2015), and Performance Art in Eastern Europe since 1960 (Manchester University Press, 2017).