Laura Wexler is Professor of American Studies, Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and co-chair of the Women's Faculty Forum at

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

. An American feminist theorist her academic concerns are in the disciplines of

women's studies Women's studies is an academic field that draws on feminist and interdisciplinary methods to place women's lives and experiences at the center of study, while examining social and cultural constructs of gender; systems of privilege and oppress ...

and

visual culture Visual culture is the aspect of culture expressed in visual images. Many academic fields study this subject, including cultural studies, art history, critical theory, philosophy, media studies, Deaf Studies, and anthropology. The field of ...

. She completed her undergraduate studies at

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, having also attended the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

where she studied photography. She holds M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. degrees from

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

in English and Comparative Literature. Wexler is a current Fellow of the Center for the Critical Analysis of Social Difference at

, a former Fellow of the Whitney Humanities Center of

. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Muriel Gardiner Society for Psychoanalysis and the Humanities, and the Board of Trustees of the Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale. Wexler's book ''Tender Violence: Domestic Visions in an Age of U. S. Imperialism'' (2000) was a recipient of the American Historical Association's Joan Kelley Memorial Prize.

Books

*''Tender Violence: Domestic Visions in an Age of U. S. Imperialism'' (2000). *''Pregnant Pictures'' (2000), with photographer Sandra Matthews. *''Interpretation and the Holocaust.'' Wexler is co-editor, with Laura Frost,

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and John MacKay.

References

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