
Laura Harris is Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies and Art & Public Policy at New York University. She is the author of Experiments in Exile: C. L. R. James, Hélio Oiticica and the Aesthetic Sociality of Blackness (Fordham University Press, 2019). She is working now on a book tentatively titled Open Image/Open City: New York Filmmaking in the 1960s and 1970s and the Indeterminacy of the Gaze. She has also published essays in Social Text, Women & Performance, Criticism, The South Atlantic Quarterly and other journals.