Red Vaughan Tremmel

Red Vaughan Tremmel's work explores spaces of play and pleasure, as historically significant sites of social struggle where people negotiate complex constellations of power.  He is particularly interested in the erotics of play and its relationship to intimacy, alternative and oppositional knowledge production, re/membering, and politics. He is a historian and professor of gender and sexuality studies at the University of Chicago, a co-facilitator of Elsewhere and Otherwise at the Performing Arts Forum, the director and co-producer of the documentary film Exotic World and the Burlesque Revival (2012), and co-creator of Subjects of Desire: Objects of Resistance, a multimedia installation commissioned for dOCUMENTA(13). He is a past fellow of the Social Science Research Council; Tulane University's Newcomb Institute; Columbia College’s Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media Program; the University of Chicago’s Center for Gender Studies Program; and the James Hormel Sexuality Program.