Deborah Cain has researched the French American artist Louise Bourgeois, specifically looking at art and subjectivity. Themes for writing have included: Walking backwards reading Lu Xun: Shanghai 2011, Reading Room (2012), and Mist/missed/taxi der mist: A certain darkness and a mist of words, in Comma dot dogma (2007), a catalogue essay on the NZ artist Tom Kreisler. Deborah is a cultural theory and art history researcher, and has lectured in various teaching positions in New Zealand, China (Shanghai), and Australia, and has published on a wide range of cultural topics, including in Third Text, Sites, Reading Room, and other journals and artists’ catalogues.