Barrie Karp

Barrie Karp (February 10, 1945 – September 27, 2019) was an American artist, independent scholar, and academic. She was an educator in philosophy, cultural studies, humanities and arts from a feminist and anti-racist perspective in New York City colleges and universities from 1970 until her death in 2019. Karp was part of the founding generation of academic feminist educators, producing cutting-edge pedagogy in academic fields that, by the 1990s, became categorized, disciplined, and designated as cultural and media studies, gender studies, critical race theory, and queer theory. Her work stood at the intersection of gender critique and anti-racist activism. Karp's pedagogy and practice sought to further define a rigorous mode of inquiry in feminist and anti-racist studies. Karp envisioned feminism as a movement that can work across disciplinary boundaries and be informed by various traditions of inquiry. Her work was informed by her lifelong study of psychoanalysis. Some of Karp's paintings appeared in the November/December 2008 issue of *Tikkun* magazine, as well as in the *Tikkun* editor's August 2009 online blog, and in the spring 2012 issue of *On the Issues* Magazine. In 1988, Karp had a one-person exhibition at the Everhart Museum in Scranton, Pennsylvania.