Mignon Nixon

Mignon Nixon is an American academic. She serves as the Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at University College London in London, United Kingdom.

Mignon Nixon
Born
Mignon Elizabeth Nixon
Alma materHarvard University
City University of New York
OccupationAcademic
Known forProfessor at University College London
SpouseGregory D. Smith
Parent(s)John Trice Nixon
Betty C. Nixon
RelativesHerman Clarence Nixon (paternal grandfather)

Early life

Mignon Elizabeth Nixon is the daughter of John Trice Nixon, a United States federal judge, and Betty C. Nixon, a former city councillor in Nashville, Tennessee.[1] Her paternal grandfather, Herman Clarence Nixon, was a political scientist at Vanderbilt University and a member of the Southern Agrarians.[1]

Nixon graduated from Harvard University and received a PhD from the City University of New York.[1]

Career

Nixon is a professor at University College London.[2] She specialises in sexuality and aggression in art since 1945, with particular reference to feminism and gender politics.[2]

Nixon was a fellow at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, and a Terra Foundation for American Art Senior Scholar in 2007. She is a co-editor of October magazine.[3]

Personal life

Nixon married Gregory D. Smith, a direct descendant of Stephen A. Douglas, in 1995.[1]

Selected publications
  • “Losing Louise,” October 134 (Fall 2010), pp. 122–132.
  • “The Undiscovered Country” (on Nira Pereg’s Kept Alive), Artforum (October 2010).
  • "Roni Horn,” Artforum, vol. 48, no. 1 (September 2009), pp. 282–283.
  • “Blood Lust,” Photoworks Issue 11. (Autumn-Winter 2008), pp. 40–41. Brighton: Photoworks, 2008.
  • “Book of Tongues,” in Nancy Spero: Dissidances. Barcelona and Madrid: Museu d’Art Contemporáni and Museu National Centro de Art Reina Sofia, 2008, pp. 21–53.
  • “Feminist Time: A Conversation,” Grey Room 31 (Spring 2008), pp. 33–67.
  • “Spero’s Curses,” October 122 (Fall 2007), pp. 3–30.
  • “War Inside/War Outside: Feminist Critiques and the Politics of Psychoanalysis,” Texte zur Kunst, vol. 17, no. 68 (December 2007), pp. 65–75, pp. 134–138.
  • “o + x,” October 119 (Winter 2007), pp. 6–20.

References
  1. "WEDDINGS; Mignon E. Nixon, Gregory D. Smith". The New York Times. 2 July 1995. Retrieved 21 August 2015.
  2. "Professor Mignon Nixon: Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History". University College London. Retrieved 21 November 2016.
  3. Mignon Nixon Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, 2013. Retrieved 23 April 2013.


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