Maud Lavin

Maud Lavin is a nonfiction writer and cultural historian. She is a professor of Visual and Critical Studies and Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is a recipient of a Senior Research Residency at Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, a Guggenheim fellowship (in 2005), and a National Endowment for the Arts grant. Her most recent book is 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, 2017).

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)
• Lavin, Maud (2011). Pushie, Jr. Chicago: Grow Books Press. ISBN 9780983666912.
• 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

1. SAIC Faculty Page
2. MIT Press Author Page
3. Amazon Author Profile
4. FNews Magazine Interview: Maud Lavin on Women and Aggression
5. Seminary Co-op Bookstore Reading
6. Lecture at the University of Chicago
7. Lecture at the California College of the Arts