Maud Lavin

Maud K. Lavin (born 10 November 1954) is an American nonfiction writer and cultural historian. She is a professor of Visual and Critical Studies and Art History, Theory, and Criticism 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 is "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, 2017).