Writer/ Assoc. Professor of Performing and Media Arts, Cornell University

Warner is also a core member of the Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, the Lesbian, Bisexual and Gay Studies Program, and an affiliate faculty member of Visual Studies. Her first book, Acts of Gaiety: LGBT Performance and the Politics of Pleasure, was the focus of the interview, and received the 2013 Outstanding Book Award for theater studies and was named a Lambda Literary Award finalist.