She is Professor Emerita, Department of Art History, University of California, Santa Barbara and since 2010, lives and works in Paris. She is the author of Photography at the Dock: Essays on Photographic Histories, Institutions and Practices (1992); Male Trouble: A Crisis in Representation (1997); Chair à Canons: Photographie, discours, féminisme (2015); Photography After Photography: Gender, Genre and History (2017); She has written monographs on the Australian artist Rosemary Laing (2011) and the Austrian artist Birgit Jurgenssen (co-authored with Gabriele Schor, 2013). Her essays on photography, 18th and 19^th- century art, feminism and contemporary art have been widely anthologized and translated.