Stephanie Lebas Huber (PhD 2022) specializes in twentieth century painting and film history. In 2023 she completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art at the Metropolitan Museum.
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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.
