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Dr Laura Guy

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Dr Laura Guy

  • PhD Coordinator for Fine Art
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ORCID
ORCID logohttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-2996-4423
Professional Title
Reader in Gender, Sexuality and Culture
Job Title
PhD Coordinator for Fine Art
School or Academic Area
School of Fine Art
School or Academic Area Supervised for
School of Fine Art
Email
L.Guy@gsa.ac.uk
Contact Number
+44 (0)141 353 4568
Professional Address
Stow Building 64 Shamrock St Glasgow G4 9JZ

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

I teach and research at the intersection of gender and sexuality with art and culture and have a particular focus on histories of post-1960s print and photographic cultures.

Grants

2023-24, 'Remapping the City of Culture through Grassroots LGBTQ+ Cultural Production', Principle Investigator, Carnegie Trust Research Incentive Grant (£8916)

PGR Supervision Interests

I am not currently accepting candidates for PhD supervision

Current PGR Students

Giulia Astesani, 'Between ‘We’ and ‘I’: Autotextual, Performative, and Collaborative Approaches to Queer and Feminist Knowledge and History'
Yiyang Chen, 'Becoming Monstrous: Queer Feminist Reimagination of Archives, Bodies, and Spaces' (co-supervised with Dr Marita Fraser, City & Guilds of London Art School)
Michael Collazo, 'Enduring Grief: The Use of Queer Objectivism through Drawing'
Brooke Hailey Hoffert (co-supervisor), 'Temporal Transitions: Trans* Temporality Explored Through Contemporary Art and the Curatorial'
Sing Hang Tam (co-supervisor), 'The Reimagining of Democracy and Nationhood in Postcolonial Hong Kong Activism'

Former PGR Students

cevahir ozdogan (co-supervisor), 'Un-digging Space Tumulus: Multi-Sensory Field Notes on Queer Nature Embodiment'

Teaching

Research Degrees Induction and Training Programme
Practice as Research for postgraduate programmes in Fine Art
Fine Art Critical Studies (FACS) Stage 4 - Critical Writing

Latest Additions

  1. Macias, Stacy, Landberg, Topiary, Harker, Jaime Lynn, Vaccaro, Jeanne and Guy, Laura, eds. (2025) Special issue: Journal of Lesbian Studies: The Dyke 90s. Taylor & Francis.
  2. Guy, Laura, Anderson, Fiona, Dunster, Flora and Gordon, Theo, eds. (2025) Special Issue: British Art Studies: Queer Art in Britain Since the 1980s. British Art Studies, 1 (27). Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and the Yale Center for British Art.
  3. Guy, Laura and Smyth, Cherry (2025) Correspondences and Fractures: Lesbians Talk Queer Formations. British Art Studies: Queer British Art Since the 1980s, 1 (27). ISSN 2058-5462
  4. Anderson, Fiona, Dunster, Flora, Gordon, Theo and Guy, Laura (2025) Introduction: Queer Art in Britain since the 1980s. British Art Studies: Queer Art in Britain since the 1980s, 27. ISSN 2058-5462
  5. Guy, Laura and Gordon, Theo (2025) Instituting Queer Art in Britain. British Art Studies: Queer Art in Britain since the 1980s (27). ISSN 2058-5462
  6. Guy, Laura (2025) Contribution in Practice. In: Challenging Institutionalization: A Propositional Toolkit for Doing Supervision of Artistic and Practice-Based Research. The Contemporary Condition . Sternberg, London, pp. 31-36. ISBN 9781915609625
  7. Guy, Laura and Grainger, Steven (2025) Imagining a City. Common Guild, 27 February - 27 March
  8. Guy, Laura (2024) The Queer Work of Photography / La fotografía como trabajo queer. Exit (96). pp. 7-15. ISSN 1577-2721
  9. Davis, Glyn Peter and Guy, Laura, eds. (2022) Queer Print in Europe. Bloomsbury Visual Arts, London. ISBN 9781350158665
  10. Raha, Nat (2022) Queer Memory in (re)constituting the trans lesbian 1970s in the UK. In: Queer Print in Europe. Bloomsbury, London, pp. 197-217. ISBN 9781350158665