Faculty

Lana Lin is a multidisciplinary artist and writer. She is the author of The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam (Dorothy, a publishing project, 2025), which was longlisted for the National Book Award, and Freud’s Jaw and Other Lost Objects: Fractured Subjectivity in the Face of Cancer (Fordham, 2017). Her film, The Cancer Journals Revisited (2018), won Best Feature Documentary at the San Diego Asian American Film Festival and Favorite Experimental Film at BlackStar Film Festival. Her individual works and collaborative mixed media projects (as “Lin + Lam”) have been shown at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, REDCAT contemporary arts center, LA, China Taipei Film Archive, BAMcinemaFest, Brooklyn, Gasworks, London, Museum of Modern Art, NY, and the 2018 Busan Biennale. Her writing has been published in Los Angeles Review of Books, LitHub, Portable Gray, ASAP/Journal, and Studies in Gender and Sexuality. She is the receipient of fellowships from the Jerome Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, Wexner Center for the Arts, and MacDowell, four times since 1996.

MFA, Bard College

PhD, New York University

Lin, Lana. The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam (St. Louis, MO: Dorothy, a publishing project, 2025)

Lin, Lana. Freud’s Jaw and Other Lost Objects: Fractured Subjectivity in the Face of Cancer (New York: Fordham University Press, 2017)

Lin, Lana. “A New Autobiography: On Re-envisioning Gertrude Stein’s Classic Cover,” LitHub, September 29, 2025

Lin, Lana. “Unsettling the Living,” Beatriz da Costa: (un)disciplinary tactics, ed. Daniela Lieja Quintanar (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2024)

Friedling, Melissa and Lana Lin. “Pareidolic Cinemas,” Portable Gray, Vol. 7, No. 1 (Spring 2024): 81-97

Lin, Lana. “Book Begins with Beech,” The Stakes of Naming series, Like a Fever, Asia Art Archive, October 13, 2023

Lin, Lana. “Possibility Made Real,” World Records, Vol. 5: Beyond Story, Article 8, https://vols.worldrecordsjournal.org/05/08

Lin, Lana and Amber Musser. “Audre Lorde Revisited” ASAP/Journal, Vol. 6, No. 1 (January 2021):1-15

Lin, Lana. “Living in the uncanny,” Rosa Mercedes, Vol. 2, Journal of Visual Culture and HaFI (Harun Farocki Institut) 19 (May 15, 2020) https://www.harun-farocki-institut.org/en/2020/05/15/living-in-the-uncanny-journal-of-visual-culture-hafi-19-2/

Lin, Lana and Toby Lee. “Filmmaking in a Minor Key: A Conversation with Toby Lee and Lana Lin,” Millennium Film Journal, Vol. 70 (October 2019): 60-69.

Lin, Lana. “The Queer Art of Survival,” WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly, Vol. 44, No. 1-2 (Spring/Summer 2016): 341-346.

Lin, Lana. “Something and Nothing: On the Psychopolitics of Breasts and Breastlessness,” Studies in Gender and Sexuality, Vol. 17, Issue 1 (2016): 34-56.

Lin, Lana. “Tomorrow I Leave: Vietnamese refugee reunion tours as a politics of aesthetics,” Asian American Literary Review: (Re)Collecting the Vietnam War, Vol. 6, Issue 2, (Fall 2015): 216-220