Red Vaughan Tremmel

Red Vaughan Tremmel (he/him) 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 particualrly interested in erotic political imaginaries and epistomologies. He is the director and co-producer of the documentary film Exotic World and the Burlesque Revival (2012) and co-creator of Subjects of Desire: Objects of Resistance, a multimedia installation commissioned for dOCUMENTA(13). Tremmel earned his doctorate in American History from the University of Chicago and is currently a professor of history and gender and sexuaity studies at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana.

As of February 2022