Lauren Bakst is  a writer, artist, and scholar working in experimental performance and queer studies. She is a PhD Candidate in English at the University of Pennsylvania where her dissertation focuses on  lesbian sexual and erotic cultures through an archive of performance, film, and scenes of social life from the 1970s to the present. 

 

Lauren organizes and curates The School for Temporary Liveness, a para-site for collective study and dissonant communion. She was a 2023-24 Sarah Pettit Doctoral Fellow in Lesbian Studies at Yale University. Her writing is forthcoming in TDR/The Drama Review. Lauren teaches seminars in dance and performance studies, contemporary art, and gender & sexuality studies. ​​

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contact at laurenbakst@gmail.com