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.

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. Her paternal grandfather, Herman Clarence Nixon, was a political scientist at Vanderbilt University and a member of the Southern Agrarians. She specialises in sexuality and aggression in art since 1945, with particular reference to feminism and gender politics.

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

Selected publications Fantastic Reality: Louise Bourgeois and a Story of Modern Art (2005). "Losing Louise," October 134 (Fall 2010), pp. 122–132. "The Undiscovered Country" (on Kept Alive, by Nira Pereg), 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.