DR. SARA BLAYLOCK

I earned my doctorate in Visual Studies with a designated emphasis in Feminist Studies at the University of California - Santa Cruz in June 2017 and have been teaching at the University of Minnesota Duluth since Fall 2017. My first book Parallel Public: Experimental Art in Late East Germany appeared with The MIT Press in March 2022.

To date, the bulk of my research has concerned the experimental art, film, and visual culture of the German Democratic Republic during the 1980s. Broader interests include official cultural policy in state socialism, the art and visual culture of the Cold War East and West, fiction and documentary film from the Eastern Bloc, as well as global histories of modernism and post-modernism in the visual arts, in Germany, Central and Eastern Europe, and the United States. My interpretive frameworks engage theories of aesthetics and politics, vision and visuality, and feminism. 

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I currently serve as a Member-At-Large on the Board of the Historians of German, Scandinavian, and Central European Art. I am also a Counselor for the European Postwar Contemporary Art Forum.