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Kimberly Kay Lamm

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Associate Professor in the Program of Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies
Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies
kkl9@duke.edu
Box 90760, Durham, NC 27708-0760
112 East Duke Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
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Selected Publications

The Gaze

Chapter · November 23, 2023 Full text Cite

Reading hieroglyphs behind glass: A glimpse of reparative feminism in Riddles of the Sphinx (1977)

Journal Article Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society · March 1, 2022 This article examines Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen’s 1977 avant-garde essay film Riddles of the Sphinx as a cinematic text that makes the museum a site for imagining psychoanalytic feminism as a reparative reading practice. I argue that the film questions ... Full text Cite

‘I Want to Wear It’: Fashioning Black Feminism in Mahogany (1975)

Journal Article Australian Feminist Studies · October 2, 2018 In this article I focus on the portrayal of fashionable clothing in the 1975 film Mahogany and connect it to the history of African American women engaging with sartorial self-representation as a means to assert their visibility in American culture. My aim ... Full text Cite

“The Will to Adorn”: Nick Cave’s Soundsuits and the Queer Reframing of Black Masculinity

Journal Article Critical Arts · May 4, 2017 This article analyses Nick Cave’s “soundsuits”—striking for their elaborately ornamented forms and vibrant colours—as queer reframings of black masculinity. Drawing on scholarship in African American studies that examines the production of black masculinit ... Full text Cite

Between the open and the hidden: Clothing, segregation, and the feminine counter-archive in the photographs of Gordon Parks

Journal Article Critical Arts · December 4, 2015 In this article I analyse the photographs Gordon Parks produced for the Life photo-essay The restraints: open and hidden, which depicts Jim Crow segregation in Mobile, Alabama. Drawing on Jacques Derrida's (1996) attention to the archival unconscious and H ... Full text Cite

Texting girls: Images, sounds, and words in neoliberal cultures of femininity

Journal Article Women and Performance · May 4, 2015 This introductory essay provides an overview of the arguments and premises of this special issue, Texting Girls: Images, Sounds, and Words in Neoliberal Cultures of Femininity. Situated within the recent historical conjuncture in which "girls" (and all tha ... Full text Cite

Modern spectacle and American feminism's disappointing daughters: Writing fantasy echoes in The Portrait of a Lady

Journal Article Feminist Theory · January 1, 2014 Joan Scott's 'fantasy echo' is deployed to analyse the trope of the mother/daughter relationship in contemporary laments about feminism's failures, exemplified by Susan Faludi's 'American Electra: Feminism's Ritual Matricide' (2010). I demonstrate that Fal ... Full text Cite

The Poetics of Black Aesthetics

Other Contemporary Literature · 2014 Link to item Cite

Poetry's Afterlife: Verse in the Digital Age

Journal Article American Literature · March 1, 2012 Full text Cite

The Gaze

Chapter · November 23, 2023 Full text Cite

Reading hieroglyphs behind glass: A glimpse of reparative feminism in Riddles of the Sphinx (1977)

Journal Article Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society · March 1, 2022 This article examines Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen’s 1977 avant-garde essay film Riddles of the Sphinx as a cinematic text that makes the museum a site for imagining psychoanalytic feminism as a reparative reading practice. I argue that the film questions ... Full text Cite

‘I Want to Wear It’: Fashioning Black Feminism in Mahogany (1975)

Journal Article Australian Feminist Studies · October 2, 2018 In this article I focus on the portrayal of fashionable clothing in the 1975 film Mahogany and connect it to the history of African American women engaging with sartorial self-representation as a means to assert their visibility in American culture. My aim ... Full text Cite

“The Will to Adorn”: Nick Cave’s Soundsuits and the Queer Reframing of Black Masculinity

Journal Article Critical Arts · May 4, 2017 This article analyses Nick Cave’s “soundsuits”—striking for their elaborately ornamented forms and vibrant colours—as queer reframings of black masculinity. Drawing on scholarship in African American studies that examines the production of black masculinit ... Full text Cite

Between the open and the hidden: Clothing, segregation, and the feminine counter-archive in the photographs of Gordon Parks

Journal Article Critical Arts · December 4, 2015 In this article I analyse the photographs Gordon Parks produced for the Life photo-essay The restraints: open and hidden, which depicts Jim Crow segregation in Mobile, Alabama. Drawing on Jacques Derrida's (1996) attention to the archival unconscious and H ... Full text Cite

Texting girls: Images, sounds, and words in neoliberal cultures of femininity

Journal Article Women and Performance · May 4, 2015 This introductory essay provides an overview of the arguments and premises of this special issue, Texting Girls: Images, Sounds, and Words in Neoliberal Cultures of Femininity. Situated within the recent historical conjuncture in which "girls" (and all tha ... Full text Cite

Modern spectacle and American feminism's disappointing daughters: Writing fantasy echoes in The Portrait of a Lady

Journal Article Feminist Theory · January 1, 2014 Joan Scott's 'fantasy echo' is deployed to analyse the trope of the mother/daughter relationship in contemporary laments about feminism's failures, exemplified by Susan Faludi's 'American Electra: Feminism's Ritual Matricide' (2010). I demonstrate that Fal ... Full text Cite

The Poetics of Black Aesthetics

Other Contemporary Literature · 2014 Link to item Cite

Poetry's Afterlife: Verse in the Digital Age

Journal Article American Literature · March 1, 2012 Full text Cite

At the Pivot of the Biopolitical: Seeing Sex and Racism in Lorna Simpson’s "You’re Fine."

Journal Article n.paradoxa: International Feminist Art Journal · 2011 Cite

A Future for Isabel Archer: Jamesian Feminism, Leo Bersani, and Aesthetic Subjectivity

Journal Article The Henry James Review · 2011 This essay brings Leo Bersani’s theorization of aesthetic subjectivity to bear on Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady (1908) and its portrayal of Isabel Archer’s concept and embodiment of “independence.” Drawing upon a psychoanalytic understanding of sexu ... Cite

Review of "Picasso and the Allure of Language"

Other The Brooklyn Rail · December 2010 Cite

On Barbara Guest

Other Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics · October 2010 Cite

Review of "Mickalene Thomas: She’s Come Undone"

Other The Brooklyn Rail · May 2009 Cite

Review of "Whitfield Lovell: Kith and Kin"

Other The Brooklyn Rail · November 2008 Cite

Review of "Ghada Amer: Love Has No End"

Other The Brooklyn Rail · September 2008 Cite

Review of Alice Notley’s In the Pines

Other Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics · 2008 Cite

Review of "Gego, Between Transparency and the Invisible"

Other The Brooklyn Rail · September 2007 Cite

Portraiture

Chapter · 2006 Cite

Modernism

Chapter · 2006 Cite

Hambone

Chapter · 2005 Thus the encyclopedia gives special attention to the historical and cultural forces that have shaped African American writing. - Publisher. ... Cite

“Langston Hughes,” “Barbara Guest,” “James Weldon Johnson,” “David Shapiro,” and “Keith Waldrop.”

Chapter · 2005 Includes more than six hundred A-to-Z entries which provide concise information on particular poems, poets, and subjects which have contributed to this literary form. ... Cite

SEEING FEMINISM IN EXILE: THE IMAGINARY MAPS OF MONA HATOUM

Journal Article Michigan Feminist Studies · 2004 Link to item Cite

A Man in the Crowd

Chapter · 2003 Cite

Within hearing distance of philosophy: Susan Howe's textual portrait of Charles S. Peirce

Journal Article International Studies in Philosophy · December 1, 2002 Cite

Like Going Under Water

Chapter · 2002 Cite

Review of Tim Dean’s Beyond Sexuality

Other Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society. · 2002 Cite

Review of Voyages

Internet Publication · November 2001 Cite

Williamsburg

Chapter · 2001 Cite