Jennifer Friedlander

Jennifer Friedlander is an American cultural studies scholar.

Friedlander received a Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Pittsburgh, and also a Ph.D. Certificate in Cultural Studies.

She is the Edgar E. and Elizabeth S. Pankey Professor of Media Studies at Pomona College in Claremont, California and chair of the Media Studies Department.

Friedlander describes her academic work as being heavily informed by Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, critical theory, and the work of Roland Barthes, expressed in her book ''Real Deceptions: The Contemporary Reinvention of Realism''. Earlier, she had focused more on feminist film theory and had written ''Feminine Look: Sexuation, Spectatorship, Subversion''.

In the first half of 2021, Friedlander was Fulbright-Freud Visiting Lecturer of Psychoanalysis at the Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienna, where she worked on a new monograph ("Powers of Pleasure: The Psychopolitics of Enjoyment in Media and Popular Culture") and taught a Master's seminar at the University of Vienna. Provided by Wikipedia