Laura Wexler

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Laura Wexler is a professor at Yale University, teaching American Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. She also co-chairs the Women’s Faculty Forum and is a feminist scholar who works in women’s studies and visual culture.

She studied at Sarah Lawrence College and studied photography at MIT. She earned a MA, an MPhil, and a PhD from Columbia University in English and Comparative Literature.

Wexler is a current fellow at Columbia’s Center for the Critical Analysis of Social Difference and was a fellow at Yale’s Whitney Humanities Center. She serves on the boards of the Muriel Gardiner Society for Psychoanalysis and the Humanities, and the Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale.

Her book Tender Violence: Domestic Visions in an Age of U.S. Imperialism (2000) won the American Historical Association’s Joan Kelley Memorial Prize.