Maud K. Lavin (born 10 November 1954) is an American writer of creative nonfiction and poetry. She is a professor emerita of Visual and Critical Studies at the
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) is a private art school associated with the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) in Chicago, Illinois. Tracing its history to an art students' cooperative founded in 1866, which grew into the museum and ...
.
She is a recipient of a Senior Research Residency at Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, a
Guggenheim fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...
(in 2005), and a
National Endowment for the Arts
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal ...
grant.
Her most recent book, ''Boys' Love, Cosplay, and Androgynous Idols: Queer Fan Cultures in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan'', co-edited with Ling Yang and Jing Jamie Zhao (Hong Kong University Press) was nominated for a Lambda, and an earlier book, Cut with the Kitchen Knife: The Weimar Photomontages of Hannah Höch (Yale UP) was named a New York Times Notable Book. Her other books include Clean New World (MIT Press) and Push Comes to Shove: New Images of Aggressive Women (MIT Press), as well as the anthologies The Oldest We've Ever Been (Arizona) and The Business of Holidays (Monacelli/Random House). Her essays and poems have appeared/are forthcoming in the Nation, Portable Gray, Chicago Artist Writers, Artforum, Harpy Hybrid Review, Rejection Letters, and other venues. Her work has been translated and published in Spanish, Dutch, German, Finnish, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese.
Publications
*''Boys' Love, Cosplay, and Androgynous Idols: Queer Fan Cultures in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan'', co-edited with Ling Yang and Jing Jamie Zhao (Hong Kong UP, 2017)
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*''Push Comes to Shove: New Images of Aggressive Women'' (MIT, 2010)
*''The Oldest We’ve Ever Been'' (Arizona, 2008), as editor and co-author
*''The Business of Holidays'' (Monacelli/Random House, 2004), as editor and co-author
*''Clean New World: Culture, Politics and Graphic Design'' (MIT, 2001)
*''Cut with the Kitchen Knife: The Weimar Photomontgaes of Hannah Hoech'' (Yale, 1993)
References
SAIC Faculty PageMIT Press Author PageAmazon Author ProfileFNews Magazine Interview: Maud Lavin on Women and AggressionSeminary Co-op Bookstore ReadingLecture at the University of ChicagoLecture at the California College of the Arts
1954 births
Living people
21st-century American historians
Cultural historians
American women historians
School of the Art Institute of Chicago faculty
21st-century American women writers
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