Laura Wexler
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Laura Wexler | |
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| Nationality | American |
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| Alma mater | Sarah Lawrence Columbia University Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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| Discipline | Visual culture American studies Gender theory Feminism |
| Institutions | Yale University Columbia University |
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. An American feminist theorist her academic concerns are in the disciplines of women's studies and visual culture.
She completed her undergraduate studies at Sarah Lawrence College, having also attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she studied photography. She holds M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University in English and Comparative Literature.[1]
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.[2]
Books
[edit]- 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, Amy Hungerford and John MacKay.
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Categories:
- American women academics
- Sarah Lawrence College alumni
- Living people
- Yale University faculty
- Yale University fellows
- Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
- Columbia University fellows
- 21st-century American women writers
- American academics of women's studies
- American feminist writers
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni