Lauren Gutterman
Core Faculty — Ph.D, New York University
Assistant Professor

Contact
- E-mail: lgutterman@austin.utexas.edu
- Phone: 512-471-4349
- Office: BUR 422
- Office Hours: Summer 2020 on Zoom by appointment
Interests
History of Women, Gender and Sexuality; LGBTQ Studies; Marriage and the Family; Popular Culture; Public History; Oral History; Digital Humanities
Biography
Lauren Jae Gutterman graduated with a B.A. in American Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies from Northwestern University. After completing her doctorate in twentieth-century U.S. History at New York University, Professor Gutterman was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows at the University of Michigan. In the fall of 2015, Professor Gutterman joined the American Studies Department at UT Austin. She is also a core faculty member in the Center for Women’s & Gender Studies, and a faculty affiliate of LGBTQ Studies and the History Department.
Publications and Scholarly Work:
Professor Gutterman is the author of Her Neighbor’s Wife: A History of Lesbian Desire Within Marriage (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019), winner of the 2019 Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prize. Her Neighbor's Wife examines the personal experiences and public representation of wives who desired women in the United States since 1945. By demonstrating the remarkable extent to which married women have been able to engage in same-sex affairs, Her Neighbor's Wife calls into question the straightness of marriage, particularly in the postwar period.
Professor Gutterman's next book project, tentatively titled "Queer Survival," examines changing understandings of the relationship between gender and sexual non-conformity and surviving childhood sexual abuse since the late-nineteenth century.
Professor Gutterman has published articles on the history of women, gender, sexuality, popular culture, digital history, and oral history in the Journal of Social History, Gender & History, The Public Historian, Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy, the Journal of the History of Sexuality, and the Oral History Review. Her public writing has appeared in The Washington Post, Public Seminar, Jezebel, Slate, The Huffington Post, Notches: (Re)marks on the History of Sexuality, and the Organization of American Historians’ blog, Process. Her work has been funded by institutions including the Woodrow Wilson Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Professor Gutterman is also the co-founder and co-host of the Sexing History podcast.
Courses Taught:
Professor Gutterman teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on women, gender, and sexuality, popular culture, and social movements. Courses taught include: Motherhood in America: A Cultural History (Signature Course); American Movements for Sexual and Reproductive Justice; Sexual Deviance in the Twentieth-Century U.S.; Transnational Sexual Modernities; Trash: Queer Studies in Low Culture; Rebels and Rejects: Rethinking the 1950s; and Introduction to American Studies.