Mignon Nixon is an American academic. She serves as the Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at

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in London, United Kingdom.

Early life

Mignon Elizabeth Nixon is the daughter of

John Trice Nixon John Trice Nixon (January 9, 1933 – December 19, 2019) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. Early life, education and military service John Trice Nixon was born on Janua ...

, a

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, and Betty C. Nixon, a former city councillor in

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. Her paternal grandfather, Herman Clarence Nixon, was a political scientist at

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and a member of the

Southern Agrarians The Southern Agrarians were twelve American Southerners who wrote an agrarian literary manifesto in 1930. They and their essay collection, ''I’ll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition'', contributed to the Southern Renaissance, ...

. Nixon graduated from

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and received a PhD from the

City University of New York The City University of New York ( CUNY; , ) is the public university system of New York City. It is the largest urban university system in the United States, comprising 25 campuses: eleven senior colleges, seven community colleges and seven pr ...

Career

Nixon is a professor at University College London. She specialises in sexuality and aggression in art since 1945, with particular reference to

feminism Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the sexes. Feminism incorporates the position that society prioritizes the male po ...

and

gender politics Identity politics is a political approach wherein people of a particular race, nationality, religion, gender, sexual orientation, social background, social class, or other identifying factors develop political agendas that are based upon these ...

. 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.Mignon Nixon
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, 2013. Retrieved 23 April 2013.

Personal life

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

Selected publications

*“Losing Louise,” October 134 (Fall 2010), pp. 122–132. *“The Undiscovered Country” (on Nira Pereg’s Kept Alive), Artforum (October 2010). *"

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,” Artforum, vol. 48, no. 1 (September 2009), pp. 282–283. *“Blood Lust,” ''

Photoworks Photoworks is a UK development agency dedicated to photography, based in Brighton, England and founded in 1995.

'' Issue 11. (Autumn-Winter 2008), pp. 40–41. Brighton:

Photoworks Photoworks is a UK development agency dedicated to photography, based in Brighton, England and founded in 1995.

, 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,”

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, vol. 17, no. 68 (December 2007), pp. 65–75, pp. 134–138. *“o + x,” October 119 (Winter 2007), pp. 6–20.

References

External links

Mignon Nixon discussing Art, Theory, and the Critique of Ideology on YouTube.
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