Maud Lavin

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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.

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, 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.

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  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