Rachel Schreiber

Rachel Schreiber is an artist, writer, and cultural historian. She has been teaching media arts, critical theory, and cultural history for over eleven years. Research interests focus on gender and visual culture. Her media-based works have focused on the representation of the Holocaust in American culture, and the intersections of of gender and labor rights. These video, photographic, and internet-based works have been exhibited widely at venues including The New York Video Festival; The World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam; Art in General, NYC; The Judah Magnes Museum, Berkeley; The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco; and the Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York.

Her writings have been published in Afterimage, the New Art Examiner, and Index. Her dissertation focuses on gender in political cartoons from the socialist press of New York City in the 1910s. Her article, “Before Their Makers and Their Judges: Prostitutes and White Slaves in the Political Cartoons of the Masses” is forthcoming in Feminist Studies.

rschreiber@cca.edu

BFA, Rhode Island School of Design; MFA, California Institute of the Arts; Whitney Independent Study Program; PhD (ABD), The Johns Hopkins University.