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Laura Kipnis is a professor of media studies at Northwestern University."Laura Kipnis at Northwestern University". She is also a cultural and media critic who focuses especially on gender issues, sexual politics, popular culture, and pornography. She began her career as a video artist, exploring similar themes in the form of video essays.
She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the San Francisco Art Institute and a Master of Fine Arts from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. She has received fellowships for her work from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Michigan Society of Fellows, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
In her 2003 book Against Love: A Polemic, a "ragingly witty yet contemplative look at the discontents of domestic and erotic relationships, Kipnis combines portions of the slashing sexual contrarianism of Mailer, the scathing antidomestic wit of early Roseanne Barr and the coolly analytical aesthetics of early Sontag." Publisher's Weekly.
Her 2010 book, How to Become a Scandal, focuses on scandal: "shattered lives, downfall, disgrace and ruin, the rage of the community directed at its transgressors." McCarthy, Ellen. "Laura Kipnis's "How to Become a Scandal," Washington Post review". The Washington Post.
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