Leah DeVun
Leah DeVun is an American contemporary artist and historian who lives in Brooklyn, NY. She received her BA and PhD from Columbia University and is a Professor at Rutgers University, where she teaches women's and gender history. She serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of the History of Ideas.
Career
DeVun's photography work explores queer and feminist histories. Her artwork has been featured in Artforum, Huffington Post, Art Papers, Hyperallergic, Modern Painters, and New York magazine.Exhibits
Her exhibition entitled "Our Hands on Each Other" present photographs documenting the landscapes of rural lesbian communes. She also explores feminist legacies in her work with a special interest in queer and gendered communities, fashion and fandom, memory, politics, and identity. The exhibition opens questions about womanhood, feminism and queerness as explored in rural Mississippi.In the publication "Radical History Review," the work of Leah DeVun is discussed in detail in an article entitled "Archives Behaving Badly." The text discusses the ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives and includes images of DeVun's work from the 2012 exhibition titled Latent Images.