# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/laura-kipnis
# Generated: 2026-08-15T09:59:32.007Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/laura-kipnis"
name: "Laura Kipnis"
slug: "laura-kipnis"
description: "Laura Kipnis is an American cultural critic, essayist, educator, and former video artist. Her work focuses on sexual politics, gender issues, aesthetics, popular culture, and pornography. She began her career as a video artist, exploring similar themes in the form of video essays. She is professor emerita of media studies at Northwestern University in the department of radio-TV-film, where she teaches filmmaking. In recent years she has become known for debating sexual harassment, and free speech policies in higher education."
tagline: "American cultural critic, essayist, and video artist (born 1956)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kipnis_Saratoga_Springs.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1956-07-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.87
  momentum:             0.060882800608828
  historical:           6.557129333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Kipnis"
    title: "Laura Kipnis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7_%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "لورا كيبنيس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Kipnis"
    title: "Laura Kipnis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Kipnis"
    title: "Laura Kipnis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Kipnis"
    title: "Laura Kipnis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Kipnis"
    title: "Laura Kipnis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Kipnis"
    title: "Laura Kipnis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3827795"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump