Mistaken Identities, demonstrates some of the ways that cyberspace and digital media deform received ideas about the stability of identity. Inspired by the lives and work of ten famous women, Mistaken Identities presents Catherine the Great, Colette, Josephine Baker, Frida Kahlo, and Simone de Beauvoir, among others, chosen for their emblematic status as female role models. Each of these women derived her power from her ability to continually reinvent herself in response to the pressures and contradictions presented by her situation. Thus Mistaken Identities examines these women as complex figures whose identities are not fixed, but contingent and mutable. Their identities are configured in the negotiated space between the self and the other, a negotiation that continues in my relation to them as narrator.”C.T.

1951	born
1979	B.F.A. School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
1986	M.F.A. University of California, San Diego
	Assistant professor, University of California, Irvine; lives in Irvine, CA