Madeleine Grumet is a professor of education and communication studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and former dean of its School of Education. She previously served as professor and dean at the School of Education at Brooklyn College, CUNY. A curriculum theorist, specializing in arts and humanities curriculum, she interprets curriculum and teaching through the lenses of feminism, psychoanalysis, and the arts. She is the author of Bitter Milk: Women and Teaching, a study of gender and the relationship of teaching and curriculum to experiences of reproduction.