Margot Kotler

Margot Kotler is Senior Associate Director of the Barnard Center for Research on Women and affiliated faculty in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College. Her scholarship examines feminist life writing, queer embodiment, and the politics of affect in modernist literature, with her current work extending these questions to feminist archives and the institutional conditions of knowledge production. At BCRW, she oversees the Center’s operations, organizes the Scholar and Feminist Conference, and leads the development of public programs and research initiatives. She received her Ph.D. in English from the Graduate Center, CUNY, in 2024, and has taught writing, literature, and gender studies at Dartmouth College and Queens College, CUNY.