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Laura Harris is Associate Professor of Cinema Studies and Art & Public Policy at the Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. She holds a PhD from New York University, an MA from the New School for Social Research, and a BA from the University of California, Berkeley.
Her research lies at the intersection of film, media, and visual studies with critical frameworks from hemispheric American studies, Black studies, and feminist and queer theories. She explores the aesthetic and social dimensions of blackness, exile, and experimental artistic practices, particularly in transnational contexts.
Harris is the author of the monograph Experiments in Exile: C. L. R. James, Hélio Oiticica and the Aesthetic Sociality of Blackness (Fordham University Press, 2019), and her scholarly work has been published in leading journals such as Social Text, Women & Performance, Criticism, and The South Atlantic Quarterly. While specific recent articles are not listed in detail, her publications reflect sustained engagement with interdisciplinary cultural critique and theoretical innovation in cinema and media studies.
- PhD, New York University
- MA, The New School for Social Research
- BA, University of California, Berkeley
Harris previously held academic positions as Assistant Professor in the Media and Cultural Studies Department at the University of California, Riverside, and as a Lecturing Fellow in the English Department and Cinematic Arts Program at Duke University, demonstrating a strong trajectory in higher education. She is actively involved in research and teaching within a PhD-granting program, suggesting ongoing mentorship of graduate students, though no specific advisees are listed. Her work contributes significantly to critical discourses on race, gender, sexuality, and aesthetics in visual culture.
