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, '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'
cevahir ozdogan (co-supervisor), 'Un-digging Space Tumulus: Multi-Sensory Field Notes on Queer Nature Embodiment'
Sing Hang Tam (co-supervisor), 'The Reimagining of Democracy and Nationhood in Postcolonial Hong Kong Activism'
Research Degrees Induction and Training Programme, Cross-school
Practice as Research, School of Fine Art
