About me
Laura Horak is Professor of Film Studies at Carleton University and director of the Transgender Media Lab and Transgender Media Portal. She investigates the history of transgender and queer film and media in the United States, Canada, and Sweden. She is co-curator of the 99-film Bluray set Cinema’s First Nasty Women (Kino Lorber, 2022), author of Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressing Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema (Rutgers 2016), and co-editor of Silent Cinema and the Politics of Space (Indiana 2014), Unwatchable (Rutgers 2019), Somatechnics 8.1 (2018) on trans/cinematic/bodies, a 2022 “In Focus” section of Journal of Cinema and Media Studies on transing cinema and media studies, and a 2024 issue of Reviews in Digital Humanities on trans and queer digital humanities.
