Laura Alexandra Harris

Laura Alexandra Harris is Professor of Africana Studies and English and World Literatures at the Claremont Colleges. Harris co-edited Femme: Feminists, Lesbians, and Bad Girls (Routledge, 1997) and is the author of Notes From a Welfare Queen in the Ivory Tower (Face2Face Press, 2003). Harris’s writing has appeared in Journal of Lesbian Studies, Callaloo, Radical History Review, Voices Rising: Celebrating Twenty Years of Black, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Writing, Calyx, and Transgender Studies Quarterly.