Lucy Byford is in her second year of postgraduate research at the University of Edinburgh. Her PhD is funded by the AHRC and uses unpublished archival material to re-assess the relationship between the print culture and performance of Berlin Dada’s members and their earlier satirical precedents in Germany, in particular political cabaret and Witzblätter (humour magazines). In July and August of 2019 she completed a fellowship funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) where she was based at the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in Munich.
Lucy received a First Class BA in the History of Art from Oxford University in 2016 and her MA in German Art, Architecture and Design (1900-1930) from the Courtauld Institute of Art in 2017, graded distinction. A founding member of artist collective, the Montage Mädels, she also holds a foundation diploma in Fine Art from City & Guilds of London Art School (2013). Before commencing her doctoral studies, Lucy was an external marker for the Technische Universität München, and worked remotely for the Commission for Looted Art in Europe, conducting archival provenance research in the archives of the imperial collection in Berlin.
