Stephanie Lebas Huber (PhD 2022) specializes in twentieth century painting and film history. In 2023 she completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Leonard Lauder Center Research Center of Modern Art at the Metropolitan Museum.
Dr. Huber has previously held fellowships from the Mellon Council for European Studies and the Isamu Noguchi Museum, a scholarship from the American Association for Netherlandic Studies, and a Fulbright to the Netherlands.
Her research examines the variety of ways in which the international and interdisciplinary genre of Magic Realism arose during the twentieth century as a way to address changes brought by modernity, authoritarian regimes, and cultural imperialism. In recent publications she has considered the influence of film on modernist figurative painting.
