People
Lane Fenrich
20th-century U.S. cultural and social; U.S. Gay and Lesbian; the AIDS epidemic
Office: 1922 Sheridan
Phone: 847-491-7560
E-mail: fenrich
northwestern.edu
Lane Fenrich (PhD, Northwestern 1992) is a cultural historian of the twentieth-century U.S. His research focuses on the production of cultural narrative, especially discourses of memory and national identity. He is currently finishing a book project entitled "Envisioning Holocaust: Visuality and Memory at the End of the Second World War" (forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press). He is also at work on a second project entitled "Fear of Spying: Learning to be Normal in America's Queerest Decade." He regularly teaches "The U.S. since 1968," "U.S. Gay and Lesbian History" as well as courses in Gender Studies.
northwestern.edu