Carol Mavor

Carol Mavor
TitleProfessor of Art History and Visual Culture
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of California, Santa Cruz
ThesisUtopic imagings of difference within Victorian culture: The little girl, the sleeper, the Virgin Mother and "the-maid-of-all-work" (1989)
Academic work
DisciplineArt history
InstitutionsUniversity of Manchester
Main interests
  • Visual culture
  • photography
  • color
Notable works
  • Pleasures Taken: Performances of Sexuality and Loss in Victorian Photographs
  • Becoming: The Photographs of Clementina, Viscountess Hawarden
  • Blue Mythologies: Reflections on a Colour
Websitewww.carolmavor.com

Carol Jane Mavor is an American writer and professor. Her work includes the books Pleasures Taken: Performances of Sexuality and Loss in Victorian Photographs, Becoming: The Photographs of Clementina, Viscountess Hawarden, and Blue Mythologies: Reflections on a Colour. She is Professor of Art History and Visual Culture at the University of Manchester.