Muriel Lederman

Muriel Lederman‘s undergraduate work was is Zoology at Barnard College, from which she graduated with honors. She earned her Ph.D. in Biological Sciences at Columbia University and did post-doctoral research at the California Institute of Technology. She is retired from Virginia Tech where, in The Department of Biological Sciences, she taught Virology and headed a well-funded research group studying cellular factors required for viral replication. This work resulted in numerous papers, book chapters and presentations at national and international conferences. She was also affiliated with the Women’s and Gender Studies program, taught a senior/graduate level course on Gender and Science, and contributed to the feminist analysis of science. She co-edited The Gender and Science Reader (Routledge, 2001). Her current interest is focused on feminist narrative medicine.