Bio:

Tanya Augsburg is a humanities-trained, interdisciplinary feminist performance scholar, educator, arts writer, and curator who can be occasionally persuaded to perform. She teaches at San Francisco State University, where, as of Fall 2026, she is Professor of Art History in the School of Art. Her former tenure home, the School of Liberal Studies, was suspended in Spring 2026.

Dr. Augsburg is additionally the Associate Editor of Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies and also serves as an ex officio executive board member of the Association for Interdisciplinary Studies. Since February 2022 Dr. Augsburg has been a member of the  College Art Association's Committee on Women in the Arts (CWA). She was the Chair of CWA Picks in 2024. In 2025 she was selected to be the Chair of the College Art Association's Committee for Women in the Arts. She will be serving as the CWA Chair until her term ends in 2027.

Dr. Augsburg is the author of Becoming Interdisciplinary: An Introduction to Interdisciplinary Studies, 4th Ed. (Kendall/Hunt, 2025) and co-editor of The Politics of Interdisciplinary Studies (McFarland, 2009). Other publications have appeared in TDR: The Drama Review; Text and Performance Quarterly; Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies; n.paradoxa: International Feminist Art Journal; World Futures; The Colorado Critical Review; Woman's Art Journal, and Critical Matrix: The Princeton Journal of Women, Gender, and Culture. She is a contributing arts writer for the online arts magazine The Art Section. She was the juror and a co-curator of Man as Object: Reversing the Gaze, a large traveling feminist art exhibition sponsored by the Women’s Caucus of Art that showed at SOMARTs in San Francisco and the Kinsey Institute Gallery at Indiana University. She was also editor of the accompanying catalogue. She was Curator of Featured Artists and member of the Executive Exhibition Committee of Northern California Women's Caucus for Art (NCWCA)'s 2016 national exhibition, F*ck U! In the Most Loving Way, which was held at Arc Gallery in San Francisco. She was lead curator and a member of the NCWCA Curatorial Collective for F213, NCWCA's 2019 intersectional feminist protest art exhibition, held at Arc Gallery in San Francisco.

Dr. Augsburg is frequently invited to give public lectures on interdisciplinarity and contemporary feminist art and performance. She has also served internationally as a reviewer and consultant for interdisciplinary programs, initiatives, and grants. In 2023, Dr. Augsburg was selected to participate in and present at the CSU International Program faculty workshop in Tokyo, Japan.

Dr. Augsburg is on research leave for the 2026-2027 academic year.

She has been selected to teach "Visioning and Re-Envisioning Renaissance Art in Florence," as part of the CSU's IP Pilot faculty-led summer study abroad in Florence, Italy, in June 2027. Please feel free to contact her at her email address (tanya@sfsu.edu) if you have any questions about this exciting three-week, three-credit, GE course!

Her current projects include completing a book-length volume on the interdisciplinary arts drawing from over two decades of published and unpublished arts writing and a book-length manuscript on what she calls feminist ars eroticas. Her favorite pastime is helping students succeed. 

Her recent major scholarly publications include:

•  “Interdisciplinarians.” Elgar Encyclopedia of Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity. Ed.  Frederic Darbellay. Glasgow: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024. 290-295.
• “Transdisciplinarians.” Elgar Encyclopedia of Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity. Ed.  Frederic Darbellay. Glasgow: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024. 542-447.
• “Beyond Interdisciplinary Teaching and Research: Remembering Julie Thompson Klein during the Early Days of Text-Generating AI,” Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies 41, no. 1 (2023): 15-30.
• “From “Private Theatres Onstage” to Anti-Hysterical Performances: Reclaiming the Feminist Interest in Hysterical Performances since the 1990s.” Hysterical Methodologies and the Arts: Rising in Revolt. Ed. Johanna Braun.  London: Palgrave, 2021. 105-126.
• “Performing, Again (after Bob).” Rated Rx: Sheree Rose with and after Bob. Ed. Yetta Howard, Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2020. 65-77.
• “Ars Eroticas of Their Own Making: Explicit Sexual Imagery in American Feminist Art.” A Companion to Feminist Art. Eds. Hilary Robinson and Maria Elena Buszek. Oxford: Blackwell, 2019. 493-512.
• “Interdisciplinary Arts.” The Oxford Handbook of Interdisciplinarity, 2^nd Edition. Ed. Robert Froderman. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. 131-143.

Some of Dr. Augsburg's additional publications, including her many catalogue essays, art writings, and book reviews, can be found on her profiles at Academia.edu, Researchgate.net,  and Medium.

Her personal professional website can be accessed at http://www.tanyaaugsburg.weebly.com

For further information, please contact  Tanya Augsburg at tanya@sfsu.edu.