Program Coordinator
Email: lbcox@ufl.edu
Office: Walker Hall 200
Office Hours: Humanities Center faculty and staff are currently available through email
Lauren Burrell Cox is the Program Coordinator at the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere. She is a Ph.D. candidate specializing in feminist film and media studies. Her hybrid dissertation project “Reactivating the Film Archive” focuses on archival and documentary films and how they activate and engage with the archive of film history. For the project, she is also creating her own film using both archival film and her own footage. The film is an experimental documentary film that reflects on her hometown of Merritt Island, Florida’s history as well as her personal experiences growing up there. Lauren has shown films at the Key West Film Festival and in the Gainesville community.
Lauren completed her M.A. thesis “Seeing the 70s: Photography as Feminist Labor” at the University of Florida in 2018. She graduated with her B.A. in English (summa cum laude) from UF in 2016 with a concentration in film and media studies and a minor in Spanish. She has taught film and literature in the English department.
Before becoming the program coordinator, she worked as the Public Relations Coordinator for the Andrew W. Mellon Intersections program at the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere.
In the summer of 2020, she was a fellow at the National Humanities Center Regional Podcasting Institute. With other graduate students from across the country, she produced Pod.Cast.Zoom – Shifting Intimacies Under COVID. Her audio essay “The Pleasures and Displeasures of Zoom” contemplates how Zoom has changed the division between the public and private sphere. She also worked as the Archivist and Historical Research Intern at the Hippodrome Theatre as part of the 2020 Public Humanities Internship Program for Ph.D. students in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Through this internship and in partnership with the Hippodrome Theatre, she is developing The Hipp Six Podcast, which tells the story of the founding of the theatre. The podcast team was awarded a Florida Humanities Community Project Grant.