Lauran Whitworth
Phone: 404.471.6551
Email: lwhitworth@agnesscott.edu
Office Location: Buttrick Hall, 316
Academic Degrees
- BA, University of Georgia
- MA, The Ohio State University
- PhD, Emory University
Teaching and Scholarly Interests
Professor Whitworth is an interdisciplinary scholar who combines her training in women's, gender, and sexuality studies with her extensive background in art history and film and media studies. Her research and teaching interests include contemporary theory, film and visual culture, and ecocriticism. Whitworth’s scholarly work has appeared in TSQ, the Journal of Lesbian Studies, Feminist Theory, Intersections: Women's and Gender Studies in Review Across Disciplines, and caa.reviews. In 2018, Professor Whitworth received the Karen Green Human Relations Award. Recipients of this award “build bridges and educate all of us in how to live together in a more fulfilling way.” Whitworth was awarded the Sandra T. Bowden Faculty Service Award in 2023. This award honors a tenure-track faculty member “whose services to the college are exemplary, transformative, and sustainable.”
Professional Activities
Whitworth 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 scholarly work has appeared in Feminist Theory, Intersections: Women's and Gender Studies in Review Across Disciplines, and caa.reviews.
Areas of Expertise
- feminist and queer theory
- feminist film theory
- LGBTQ+ film and media studies
- rural sexuality studies
- queer ecologies
- experimental cinema
- eco-cinema