Alice in Pornoland: Professor Marks Talks Sex Work and Pornography

Laura Helen Marks is a Professor of Practice in English at Tulane. Her work on pornographic genre, adaptation, and neo-Victorian studies has appeared in Sexualities, Porn Studies, Salon, Feminist Media Histories, The Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, and many edited collections such as From Porno Chic to the Sex Wars and Menstruation Now.

Marks is also a contributor to the adult film oral history podcast, The Rialto Report, and has served as an expert for mainstream media outlets including the BBC and Motherboard. Her book, Alice in Pornoland: Hardcore Encounters With the Victorian Gothic, was published by Illinois University Press in 2018 and has been nominated for the MLA Prize for a First Book and the SCMS First Book Prize.