Laura Tscherry

Bio

Laura Tscherry is a PhD Candidate in English literature at Indiana University. Their project "Architectures of the Queer Domestic: The Erotics of Shared Living Spaces" investigates alternative forms of relationality that emerge in communal domestic arrangements. Their work aims to reanimate the resonances between architectural theory and queer/trans theory to demonstrate that linking them together productively deforms conventional notions about both intimate life and the built environment. Their writing appears or is forthcoming in Woolf Miscellany, Modernism/modernity Print+, and The Guardian (UK). They are one of the co-authors of the MSA Advocacy Handbook.

Contributions

Queer Domestic Architectures: Theorizing Kinship and Communal Modernism

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Although I have been living alone for a few years, I still remember having roommates and how communal living shapes domestic space and the rhythms of daily life. I remember how thin walls, bleary mornings, and long evenings in shared kitchens and living rooms inevitably lead you to learn more about your cohabitants than you’d perhaps like, the mutual exposure to daily patterns of work and leisure, mood shifts, and the vicissitudes of bodies creating an intimacy that emerges from the slow...

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