Red
Vaughan Tremmel
Red Vaughan Tremmel
is an interdisciplinary scholar and artist whose
work explores spaces of play and pleasure as
historically significant sites of social struggle and knowledge
production. He is particularly interested in the relationship
between erotic imaginaries and the politics of
intimacy. He is the director and co-producer of the
documentary film Exotic World and the Burlesque
Revival (2012) and co-creator ofSubjects of
Desire: Objects of Resistance, a multimedia
installation commissioned for dOCUMENTA(13).
Tremmel earned his doctorate in American History and is a
professor of gender and sexuality studies at the University of
Chicago.