A leading voice among modern art historians, prominent in the field of
deconstructionist, feminist, and psychoanalytical art criticism, in
1995 Krauss was named Meyer Schapiro Professor of Modern Art and Theory
at Columbia University, where she taught since 1992. Born around 1951,
she is known for her scholarship in 20th-century painting, sculpture
and photography. She has published books in both English and French and
has been curator of many art exhibitions at leading museums. A 1962
graduate of Wellesley, Krauss received her Ph.D. from Harvard in
1969.