Sara Blaylock

Currently Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Minnesota Duluth, Sara Blaylock is an expert on the experimental art, film, and visual culture of the German Democratic Republic during the 1980s. Broader interests include official cultural policy in state socialism, documentary film from the GDR, as well as the intersections of visuality, gender, and class in 20th and 21st century Europe and the United States. Her first book, Parallel Public: Experimental Art in Late East Germany, appeared with the MIT Press in March 2022, and she has published widely in forums including Third Text, Cinema Journal, and The Oxford Handbook of Communist Visual Cultures. Her website is www.sarablaylock.com.