PERSON: Laura Wexler

Professor

Laura Wexler is professor of American Studies, Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and co-chairwoman of the Women’s Faculty Forum at Yale. She holds an affiliation with the Film Studies Program, the Program in Ethnicity, Race and Migration, and the Public Humanities Program. In 1999 she founded, and she continues to direct, the Photographic Memory Workshop at Yale. From 2007 to the present she has been a Principal Investigator of the Women, Religion and Globalization Project. Wexler’s scholarship centers upon intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and class with film and photography in the United States, from the nineteenth century to the present. Her book, "Tender Violence: Domestic Visions in an Age of U. S. Imperialism," won an award for the best book in women’s history. She is co-author of Pregnant Pictures, and co-editor, of Interpretation and the Holocaust. Her most recent publication is: “No Doubt the Cubans!” in A New Literary History of America.

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