faculty profile
Greg Youmans
Visiting Faculty
History and Theory of Contemporary Art
Greg Youmans is a film scholar and video maker. His research focuses on the politics and aesthetics of queer activist and experimental filmmaking in the 1970s. In 2011, he published a book about the pioneering Bay Area documentary Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives (Mariposa Film Group, 1977), as part of Arsenal Pulp Press's Queer Film Classics series. He is now at work on a larger book project about 1970s queer cinema. With Chris Vargas, he makes short experimental narrative videos, many of them part of the ongoing series Falling In Love… with Chris and Greg.
Selected Exhibitions:
- Barbara Hammer: The Fearless Frame, Tate Modern, London, UK, 2012
- DocumentO, Krowswork, Oakland, CA, 2012
- Suggestions of a Life Being Lived, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA, 2010
Selected Publications:
- Word Is Out: A Queer Film Classic, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2011
- "Performing Essentialism: Reassessing Barbara Hammer’s Films of the 1970s," Camera Obscura, 2012
- "Ghosted Documentary: Chantal Akerman’s Là-bas," Millennium Film Journal, 2009
Education:
- PhD, History of Consciousness (Feminist Studies, Literature), University of California, Santa Cruz
- BA, English and French Literature, University of California, Berkeley
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