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Research

Research Summary

Mignon's current research focuses on intersections of art, sex, war, and peace. Her present book project,听Sperm Bomb: Art, Feminism, and the American War in Vietnam, explores the dynamic interaction between feminist thought and artistic resistance to war. She has lectured and published widely over the course of this research, which has been funded by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and the Clark Art Institute. This project also formed the focus of her residency as Diane Middlebrook and Carl Djerassi Visiting Professor of Gender Studies at the University of Cambridge in 2015. Since beginning this long-term project, Mignon has supervised a number of doctoral students researching questions of war and peace in art and visual culture, analysed in the perspectives of feminism, sexuality, gender, and subjective theories of the group. She welcomes applications from prospective research students working in these areas, broadly construed.

Mignon is also a secondary supervisor in the UCL Psychoanalysis Unit and works in collaboration with the Unit to support students engaged in interdisciplinary study in visual culture and psychoanalysis. She welcomes applications from research students working across visual culture and psychoanalysis.

Mignon鈥檚 earlier publications include听Fantastic Reality: Louise Bourgeois and a Story of Modern Art听(2005) and edited anthologies of writings on Mary Kelly (2016) and Eva Hesse (2002). She has also published extended critical essays on artists including Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler, Yayoi Kusama, Nancy Spero, Carolee Schneemann听and Silvia Kolbowski, and on such topics as the psychoanalytic couch and transference.

Selected Publications

BOOKS (EDITED AND AUTHORED)
Mary Kelly听(MIT Press/October Books, 2016).
Fantastic Reality: Louise Bourgeois and a Story of Modern Art听(MIT Press/October Books, 2005).
Eva Hesse听(MIT Press/October Books, 2002).
The Duchamp Effect, co-editor with Martha Buskirk (MIT Press/October Books, 1996).

JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES
October听113 (Summer 2005), special section on psychoanalysis.

Louise Bourgeois special issue,听Oxford Art Journal, vol. 22, no. 2 (1999). Guest editor.

Feminist IssueS, special issue, October 71 (Winter 1995). Co-editor with Silvia Kolbowski.

CHAPTERS AND CATALOGUE ESSAYS
鈥淲hat鈥檚 Love Got to Do, Got to Do with It? Feminist Politics and America鈥檚 War in Vietnam,鈥� Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965-1975, ed. Melissa Ho (Washington, D.C. and Princeton, N.J.: Smithsonian American Art Museum in association with Princeton University Press, 2019,) pp. 325-347.

鈥淢ary Kelly鈥檚 Mimus: Feminism鈥檚 Waves,鈥� Mary Kelly October File, ed. Mignon Nixon (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2016), pp. 167-191.

"Schneemann's Personal Politics," in听Carolee Schneemann: Kinetic Painting, ed. Sabine Breitwieser and Branden Joseph (Prestel, 2015), pp. 44-53.

"Minimal Difference: On Siblings, Sex and Violence," in听Juliet Mitchell and the Lateral Axis: Twenty-First Century Psychoanalysis and Feminism, ed. Robbie Duschinsky and Sue Walker (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).

"Infinity Politics," in听Yayoi Kusama, ed. Frances Morris (London: Tate Publishing, 2012), pp. 176-185.

"L," in听Louise Bourgeois: The Return of the Repressed, ed. Philip Larratt-Smith (London: Robert Violette, 2012).

"Book of Tongues," in听Nancy Spero: Dissidances. Barcelona and Madrid: Museo d'Art Contempor谩ni and Museo National Centro de Art Reina Sofia, 2008, pp. 21-53.

"Reconstructing the Past: Louise Bourgeois and Psychoanalysis,"听Louise Bourgeois (London: Tate Publishing, 2007), pp. 228-233.

"The She Fox: Transference and the 'Woman Artist," in听Women Artists at the Millennium, ed. Carol Armstrong and Catherine de Zegher (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press/October Books, 2006), pp. 275-303.

"'Child Drawing,'" in听Eva Hesse Drawing, ed. Catherine de Zegher (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006), pp. 27-56.

JOURNAL ARTICLES (SELECTED)
鈥溾赌�,鈥澨�Psychoanalysis and Culture, special issue edited by Lynne Layton (Palgrave, 2015).
鈥淟ouise Lawler:听No Drones,鈥澨�October听147 (Winter 2014), pp. 20-37.

鈥淎natomic Explosion on Wall Street,鈥澨�October听142 (Fall 2012), pp. 3-25. Available on JStor.
鈥淪pero鈥檚 Curses,鈥澨�October听122 (Fall 2007), pp. 3-30.

鈥淲ar Inside/War Outside: Feminist Critiques and the Politics of Psychoanalysis,鈥澨�Texte zur Kunst, vol. 17, no. 68 (December 2007), pp. 65-75, pp. 134-138.

鈥渙 + x,鈥澨�October听119 (Winter 2007), pp. 6-20.

鈥淒ream Dust,鈥澨�October听116 (Spring 2006), pp. 63-86.

鈥淥n the Couch,鈥澨�October 113听(Summer 2005), pp. 39-76. Reprinted in Photography and the Optical Unconscious, ed. Shawn Michelle Smith and Sharon Slowinki (Duke University Press, 2017).

鈥淓va Hesse Retrospective: A Note on Milieu,鈥澨�October听104 (Spring 2003), pp. 149-156.

鈥淧osing the Phallus,鈥澨�October听92 (Spring 2000), pp. 99-127.

鈥淓ating Words,鈥澨�Oxford Art Journal, Louise Bourgeois special issue, vol. 22, no. 2 (1999), pp. 55-70.

鈥淎fter Images,鈥澨�October听83 (Winter 1998), pp. 115-30.

鈥淏ad Enough Mother,鈥澨�October听71 (Winter 1995), pp. 71-92; reprinted in听October: The Second听Decade听(Cambridge: Mass: MIT Press, 1997); translated in听Divan: A Journal of Psychoanalysis and Culture听(Stockholm, 1999).

鈥溾赌橸ou Thrive on Mistaken Identity,鈥欌�� (on Barbara Kruger),听October听60 (Spring 1992), pp. 59-81.

Teaching and Supervision

Mignon offers BA and MA modules in the History of Art Department. These include 鈥淔eminism and Visuality,鈥� 鈥淨uestions of Feminism,鈥� and 鈥淧sycho鈥� (BA) and 鈥淥n Sex and Violence鈥� (MA).

Mignon has supervised doctoral research in history of art in the University of London since 1999. At 911爆料网, she is particularly interested in supervising topics concerned with feminism, gender and sexuality, and with anti-militarism and the politics of peace. Proposals involving psychoanalysis are especially welcome.

Current Doctoral Supervision

Caitrin Barrett-Donlon, 'Revisioning: Experimental Dance, Museums, and Yvonne Rainer'

Philomena Epps, 'Erotic Objects, Erogenous Zones: Fetishism and Sexual Difference, 1957-1984'听

Louis Shankar (co-supervised with Bob Mills), 'We are born into a preinvented existence': a psychoanalytic interrogation of the late art of David Wojnarowicz'听

Recently completed

Michael Green, "Thinking Back: Artistic Returns to H.D." (2022)

Ivan Knapp, 鈥淢eme-work: Psychoanalysis and the alt-right鈥� (2021)

Levi Prombaum, 鈥溾赌橠isagreeable Mirror Though One May Be鈥�: Portraits of James Baldwin, 1945-65鈥� (UCL, 2019)

Biography

Academic Background

Mignon Nixon has taught history of art in the University of London since 1996, when she was appointed Lecturer in American Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art. She became Professor at the Courtauld in 2006. She joined the History of Art department at 911爆料网 in January 2016. At 911爆料网, she plans to pursue interdisciplinary research across histories and theories of art, gender studies and psychoanalysis.

Mignon has held research fellowships from the Getty Foundation (1999-2000), the Clark Art Institute (2006 and 2012) and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University (2010-11) and has been a senior scholar at the Terra Foundation for the Arts, Giverny (2007). She is the Diane Middlebrook and Carl Djerassi Visiting Professor at the University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies in autumn 2015.

Mignon was educated at Harvard University (A.B. Visual and Environmental Studies, 1983), the School of Visual Arts, New York City (M.F.A. Sculpture, 1987) and City University of New York Graduate Center (Ph.D., history of art, 1997).

She is a co-editor of October, where many of her writings have also appeared. She has published extensively on later twentieth-century and contemporary art in the perspectives of feminism, psychoanalysis, and gender, including a critical study of the work of Louise Bourgeois (2005) and anthologies of critical writings on Eva Hesse (2002) and Mary Kelly (2016). Recent texts include essays on Louise Lawler, Yayoi Kusama, and Carolee Schneemann, and on the psychoanalytic writings of Juliet Mitchell.