Tirza Latimer, presenting her paper " Modernism's Other Others: Faith Ringgold's Dinner at Gertrude Stein's" on January 29, 2011 at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. Her presentation was part of the scholarly symposium "Addressing (and Redressing) the Silence: New Scholarship in Sexuality and American Art" which presented papers from 11 scholars in the fields of art, art history, performance art, and social history. This symposium was presented in conjunction with the exhibition "Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture." Tirza Latimer is associate professor and chair of the graduate program in visual and critical studies at California College of the Arts, San Francisco. She has published work from a lesbian feminist perspective on a wide range of topics in the fields of visual culture, sexual culture, and criticism. She is coeditor of the anthology The Modern Woman Revisited: Paris Between the Wars, and the author of Women Together/Women Apart: Portraits of Lesbian Paris.

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