Corey Dzenko is Associate Professor of Art History at Monmouth University, USA, where she focuses her research on contemporary art and photography in terms of the politics of identity and place. She presents and publishes her work internationally, recently curating I Wish That I Had Spoken Only of It All: Twenty Years of Sheryl Oring's "I Wish to Say" (2024).

Since launching I Wish to Say in 2004, Sheryl Oring has had her work featured at universities, museums, and public spaces nationally and internationally, including the International Exhibition of Architecture at the Venice Biennale, Bryant Park in New York City, and the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, DC, while she has received grants from Creative Capital, Franklin Furnace, and the New York Foundation for the Arts, among others. She has served as Chair of the Department of Applied Design at Appalachian State University and is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Coalition Against Censorship.