Laura Brady

Laura is a second year MA student studying twentieth-century Modernism with Dr. Steven Mansbach. After earning a BA in Art History and a BA in Germanic Studies (magna cum laude) from the University of Maryland in 2014, she completed an internship in the Education Department at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery (2014), was an Artist-in-Residence at Catoctin Mountain National Park (2015), and spent a year as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Hamburg, Germany (2015-2016). During the summer of 2018, she taught courses in film ("Monster Movies: Representations of Monsters in International Cinema and Popular Culture") and art history ("Modern Art and the Natural Environment") at Riderwood Village through Prince George's Community College's SAGE program. Her research interests include humor in conceptual and performance art, fictional portrayals of artists in cinema, the role of art and the moving image in the Information Age, and the history of visual censorship.