Susan Close has a Ph.D. from the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, Theory and Interpretation at University of Amsterdam. She received a Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) doctoral fellowship for her research on women photographers in Canada. She currently teaches at the University of Manitoba’s Faculty of Architecture in Winnipeg. Her teaching experience includes courses in art history, photography, drawing, theory, criticism and environmental design at the University of Manitoba, the University of Ottawa, Carleton University and the University of Saskatchewan.