Dr
Laura
Guy
PhD Coordinator for Fine Art
School of Fine Art
biography
Laura Guy is a Reader in Gender, Sexuality and Culture at the Glasgow School of Art, where she has worked since 2015. Before joining the GSA, Laura held teaching positions at Goldsmiths, University of London, University of the Creative Arts, and Manchester School of Art. She was awarded her PhD from the Manchester Institute of Research in Art and Design in 2016 and undertook postdoctoral research from 2016-18 at University of Edinburgh. From 2018-21, she was Research Excellence Fellow in Art History at Newcastle University. In 2019-20, she was the Honorary Fellow in Contemporary Art Theory and Curating at Edinburgh College of Art. In 2022, she was Affiliate Fellow in Art History and Critical Studies at the ICI, Berlin. Laura's research has been published widely and supported by various funding bodies including the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, Terra Foundation for American Art and the Carnegie Trust.
Research interests
Queer feminist print and image cultures since the 1960s; the relationship between feminist and queer activism and culture; cultural infrastructure and civic and public engagement; creative and community-led approaches to archiving; queer and feminist materialism.
PGR supervision interests
I am not currently accepting candidates for PhD supervision
Current PGR students
Giulia Astesani, PhD by practice 'Between ‘We’ and ‘I’: Autotextual, Performative, and Collaborative Approaches to Queer and Feminist Knowledge and History' (primary supervisor)
Yiyang Chen, PhD by practice Becoming Monstrous:
Embodied Reenactment as a Decolonial Queer Feminist Method of Archival Intervention (co-primary supervisor)
Michael Collazo, PhD by practice 'Enduring Grief: The Use of Queer Objectivism through Drawing' (primary supervisor)
Brooke Hailey Hoffert, PhD by thesis, 'Temporal Transitions: Trans* Temporality Explored Through Contemporary Art and the Curatorial' (co-supervisor)
Sing Hang Tam, PhD by thesis 'The Reimagining of Democracy and Nationhood in Postcolonial Hong Kong Activism' (acting primary supervisor)
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