Wolff, Janet (Personal Name)

Her Hermeneutic philosophy and the sociology of art, 1975.

Traces, memory and the Holocaust in the writings of W. G. Sebald, 2012: title page (Janet Wolff) page 90 (Professor Emerita of Cultural Sociology at the University of Manchester where she directed the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts from 2008 to 2010. She returned to Manchester, her home town, in 2006. Before that, she taught at the University of Leeds; the University of Rochester, where she was director of the Program in Visual and Cultural Studies; and Columbia University, where she was Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the School of the Arts. Her books include The Social Production of Art, Aesthetics and the Sociology of Art, Feminine Sentences, Resident Alien, AngloModern, and The Aesthetics of Uncertainty.