https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2996-4423
Laura Guy is a Reader (research) in Gender, Sexuality and Culture at the Glasgow School of Art. Before joining the GSA in 2015, she held teaching positions at Goldsmiths, University of London, University of the Creative Arts, and Manchester School of Art. She gained her PhD from the Manchester Institute of Research in Art and Design in 2016 and undertook postdoctoral research from 2016-18 on the HERA-funded project ‘Cruising the Seventies: Unearthing Pre-HIV/AIDS Queer Sexual Cultures’ 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.
My research and teaching focuses on the aesthetic and cultural dimensions of feminist, queer and trans practice. I have published widely and curated exhibitions in this area.
2023-24, 'Remapping the City of Culture through Grassroots LGBTQ+ Cultural Production', Principle Investigator, Carnegie Trust Research Incentive Grant (£8916)
I am not currently accepting candidates for PhD supervision
Giulia Astesani (Primary Supervisor); Michael Collazo (Primary Supervisor); Sing Hang Tam (Co-supervisor); cevahir ozdogan (Co-supervisor); Brooke Hailey Hoffert (Co-supervisor)
