Lee Quinby / Photo © 2024 Matt Matsuda
Lee Quinby: Filmmaker, Author, and Educator.
Lee Quinby, founder of Lucky Find Productions and co-founder with Erickson Blakney of the True Delta Project, is an award-winning filmmaker and American Studies scholar.
Filmmaker:
Lee Quinby’s films center on two distinctive geographic sites--Rockaway, New York and Clarksdale, Mississippi--and highlight how residents of each place wrestle with social and economic challenges and contribute to their local cultures.
Author:
Lee Quinby is author of Freedom and Foucault, 1991, Anti-Apocalypse, 1994, and Millennial Seduction, 1999, editor of Genealogy and Literature, 1995, and co-editor of Feminism and Foucault, 1988, Gender and Apocalyptic Desire, 2006, and Reel Revelations, 2010. Her essays have appeared in numerous journals and edited collections, including The American Historical Review, Signs, and Constellations.
Educator:
Lee Quinby taught at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY, 1984-2007 and was appointed to the Harter Chair in 2001, was a Senior Fulbright Professor in Critical Theory at the University of Athens in 1995, held the Gannett Chair on the Millennium at the Rochester Institute of Technology, 1999-2001, and the inaugural Zicklin Chair at Brooklyn College, CUNY, and for six years was Distinguished Lecturer at Macaulay Honors College, CUNY until her retirement from teaching in 2014.
She lives in New York City.
“What I most relish are the unexpected revelations.”