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Lauran Whitworth

Associate Professor and Chair of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

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.”

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