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Lauran Whitworth is Assistant Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Agnes Scott College, where she teaches interdisciplinary courses at the intersection of gender, sexuality, film, and environmental justice. Her academic training includes a PhD from Emory University, an MA from The Ohio State University, and a BA from the University of Georgia.
Her research interests span feminist and queer theory, LGBTQ+ media studies, rural sexuality, queer ecologies, and experimental cinema. She is currently completing a book project titled Environmental Eros: Picturing Feminist, Queer, and Trans Ecologies, which examines the environmental ethics and activism of 1970s ecological feminisms, the Radical Faerie movement, and contemporary groups like the ecosexuality movement and the Queer Ecojustice Project. Her scholarship emphasizes understudied visual and literary materials from back-to-the-land movements.
Her recent publications explore queer environmental ethics in the Anthropocene, feminist film theory, and representations of marginalized bodies in photography. Key themes across her work include the interplay between human and nonhuman relationalities, affective dissonance in activism, and the subversive potential of camp and humor in ecological discourse.
Notable recognition includes the 2018 Karen Green Human Relations Award. She is a member of the National Women's Studies Association (NWSA), the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), and the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE).
Her teaching portfolio includes courses such as Introduction to Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Queer Film Theory, Intersectional Research Methods, and Global Environmental Justice in the Anthropocene. She has not advised any named students in the provided texts, and there is no indication of grant funding or laboratory affiliations. She maintains an active research profile with recent publications and conference presentations.
