http://www.carolmavor.co.ukCarol Mavor is Professor of Art History and Visual Studies at the University of Manchester. She is the author of four books, all published by Duke University Press: Reading Boyishly: Roland Barthes, J. M. Barrie, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Marcel Proust, and D. W. Winnicott (2007), Becoming: The Photographs of Clementina, Viscountess, Hawarden (1999) Pleasures Taken: Performances of Sexuality and Loss in Victorian Photographs (1995) and Black and Blue: The Bruising Passion of Camera Lucida, La Jetée, Sans soleil and Hiroshima mon amour (2012). Her essays have appeared in Cabinet Magazine, Art History, Photography and Culture, Photographies, as well as edited volumes. Mavor has lectured broadly in the US and the UK, including The Photographers' Gallery (London), University of Cambridge, Duke University, the Royal College of Art and the Guggenheim Museum. For 2010- 2011, Mavor was named the Northrop Frye Chair in Literary Theory at University of Toronto. Mavor's Blue Mythologies: A Study of the Colour is forthcoming with Reaktion Books in 2013. Currently, she is hard at work on fairy tales and a novel entitled Like a Lake.