Marcia Brennan is Associate Professor of Art History at Rice University in Houston, Texas. A scholar of modern and contemporary art, her books include Painting Gender, Constructing Theory: The Alfred Stieglitz Circle and American Formalist Aesthetics (2001, 2002); Modernism's Masculine Subjects: Matisse, The New York School, and Post-Painterly Abstraction (2004), and a forthcoming study entitled Curating Consciousness: Mysticism and the Modern Museum.

Marcia Brennan's work featured in PN Review comprises two articles and one review, over a period of two years.