Jennifer Friedlander is an American cultural studies scholar.
[1] She is the Edgar E. and Elizabeth S. Pankey Professor of Media Studies at Pomona College in Claremont, California and chair of the Media Studies Department.
[2] Friedlander describes her academic work as being heavily informed by Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, critical theory, and the work of Roland Barthes, expressed in her book Real Deceptions: The Contemporary Reinvention of Realism.
Earlier, she had focused more on feminist film theory and had written Feminine Look: Sexuation, Spectatorship, Subversion.
[3] In the first half of 2021, Friedlander was Fulbright-Freud Visiting Lecturer of Psychoanalysis at the Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienna,[4] where she worked on a new monograph ("Powers of Pleasure: The Psychopolitics of Enjoyment in Media and Popular Culture") and taught a Master's seminar at the University of Vienna.