Thomas Love received their PhD in Art History from Northwestern University and is now a Preparing Future Faculty for Inclusive Excellence (PFFIE) postdoctoral fellow at the University of Missouri. Love works at the intersection of contemporary art history, gender and sexuality studies, German studies, and critical race theory. Their current book project, titled Queer Exoticism: Strategies of Self-Othering in West Germany, analyzes queer art in post-’60s West Germany to show how representations of racial and ethnic difference became essential to the formation of contemporary queer identity. Their research has been supported by grants from the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), the Fulbright Program, and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), as well as fellowships in the Paris Program in Critical Theory and the Whitney Independent Study Program. Their writing has been published in Angela McRobbie (ed.) Ulrike Ottinger: Film, Art and the Ethnographic Imagination (Bristol: Intellect Books, 2024), as well as in The Germanic Review, Texte zur Kunst, Art in America, Portable Gray, and the Art Institute of Chicago’s “Perspectives” series.