Laura Harris is a filmmaker, curator, community organizer, and scholar. She is a PhD candidate in the program in American Studies at New York University and a fellow in the department of English at Duke University. She has been writing about unfinished and only recently published proposals that were generated, at least in part, by writer C. L. R. James and artist Hélio Oiticica while each lived undocumented and underground in the US. Harris is interested in the unusual forms and social “lives” of such documents (or “undocuments”), the ways in which they open up new understandings of work, the work, authorship, citizenship, the way these all relate to one another, Afro-diasporic invention, and the possibility of new political dispositions. She has articles forthcoming in Discourse and Callaloo.
