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Laura Wexler is Professor of American Studies and Women's and Gender Studies at Yale, where she also founded and chairs the Photographic Memory Workshop. Wexler's many books and articles include Pregnant Pictures (2001) (with Sandra Matthews) and Tender Violence; Domestic Visions in an Age of U. S. Imperialism (2001). She also co-edited a special volume of the Yale Journal of Criticism on contemporary cultural perspectives on the Holocaust (with Laura Frost, Amy Hungerford, and John MacKay) (2001). Her most recent publication is “The Fair Ensemble: Kate Chopin in St. Louis in 1904,” in Haunted By Empire: Geographies of Intimacy in North American History, edited by Ann Laura Stoler (2006). Currently she is at work on two books, one an analysis of the work of photographer Diane Arbus in relation to mid-twentieth-century U. S. culture, and the other a study of the racial politics of domestic spectatorship at the St. Louis World's Fair of 1904.