Lori Marso is the author of several articles and books, most recently Politics with Beauvoir: Freedom in the Encounter (Duke, 2017); editor of Fifty-One Key Feminist Thinkers (Routledge, 2016); and co-editor of Politics, Theory, and Film: Critical Encounters with Lars von Trier (Oxford, 2016). She is Doris Zemurray Stone Professor of Modern Literary and Historical Studies at Union College in Schenectady, New York, currently living in New York City, and her new book, Feminism and the Cinema of Experience, was published in 2025 by Duke University Press.
Lori Marso
Articles
Trans Women in the Heartland
Lori Marso examines “Woodworking,” the debut novel from fellow South Dakotan Emily St. James.
What Women Want, per Catherine Breillat
Lori Marso reviews Catherine Breillat’s film “Last Summer” in the context of the director’s body of work, as well as alongside the recent Miranda July novel, “All Fours.”
Frame Tale: On Christine Smallwood’s “La Captive” and Chantal Akerman
Lori Marso reviews Christine Smallwood’s book on “La Captive” (Chantal Akerman, 2000).
Burn Book: On “Priscilla” and Sofia Coppola’s White Girls
Lori Marso looks at “Priscilla” within Sofia Coppola’s white girl oeuvre.
Feeling Like a Barbie: On Greta Gerwig and Chantal Akerman
Lori Marso explores feeling plastic in Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” and the works of Chantal Akerman.
Feeling Like a Feminist with Audrey Diwan’s “Happening”
Lori J. Marso uses Simone De Beauvoir and a feminist phenomenological lens to consider Audrey Diwan’s “Happening,” a film adapted from the work of Annie Ernaux.
How Do You Solve a Problem Like “Titane”?
Is Julia Ducournau’s “Titane” feminist?
Unbecoming Women
Lori Jo Marso reads Annie Ernaux’s latest memoir alongside de Beauvoir.
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