SURFACE IMAGINATIONS: COSMETIC SURGERY, PHOTOGRAPHY, AND SKIN Rachel Alpha Johnston Hurst Montreal & Kingston: McGill- Queen’s University Press, 2015

Sydney Tyber is a PhD Candidate in English literature at York University. Her SSHRC-funded doctoral research
uses feminist performance studies to interrogate how bodies and “flesh” interact with and across aesthetic modes of women’s performance, photography, and literature. She interrogates those tangible surfaces that present and represent women as live and static objects, considering the feminist stakes in object-oriented ontologies themselves. She has received grants for site-specific performance in Toronto, published in the Canadian Theatre Review, and presented work internationally.