Tirza True Latimer has published work from a lesbian feminist perspective on a range of topics in the fields of visual culture, sexual culture, and criticism. She is coeditor, with Whitney Chadwick, of the anthology The Modern Woman Revisited: Paris Between the Wars (Rutgers University Press, 2003) and the author of Women Together / Women Apart: Portraits of Lesbian Paris (Rutgers University Press, 2005).

She also is an independent curator whose recent exhibitions include Making Room for Wonder (2008, SomArts Gallery, San Francisco); Unexpected Developments (2006, PLAySPACE, CCA, San Francisco); and Acting Out: Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore (2005, Judah L. Magnes Museum, Berkeley; Frye Museum, Seattle; Jersey Heritage Trust, Isle of Jersey). She is currently collaborating on a major exhibition about the life and afterlife of Gertrude Stein, which will be organized by the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco.

Tirza's teaching, like her research, explores the intersection of visual and sexual cultures. Her interests include the emergence of lesbian and gay visual communities in early twentieth-century Paris; collaborative and participatory art practices in contemporary art; new genres of public art; the visual politics of identity; art activism; and the history of photography. She is an active member and cochair of the Queer Caucus for Art, a College Art Association–affiliated society.

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Associate Professor, Fine Arts
Associate Professor, Visual and Critical Studies
Chair, Visual and Critical Studies

BA, Sarah Lawrence College

Contact: tlatimer@cca.edu