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Laura Prins is a Lecturer in Art History at Utrecht University's Faculty of Humanities, Department of History and Art History, having recently completed her PhD in March 2025 with a dissertation on creativity and mental illness.
Education:
- PhD in Art History, Utrecht University (2025)
Research Focus: Dr. Prins investigates the cultural construction of the 'suffering artist' myth through historical analysis of creativity-mental illness connections. Her work bridges art history, medical humanities, and biographical studies, examining how artistic genius became pathologized across Western cultural history.
Publication Trends: Her 2023 outputs critically analyze the romanticization of mental suffering in artistic production, with conference papers exploring early modern ego-documents and popular science articles tracing historical representations of the suffering artist in media and culture.
Professional Activities: Former curator at Van Gogh Museum and Museum Panorama Mesdag, she currently teaches courses including 'The Art of Creation: Creativity in Media Art and Culture' while serving on the Literature & Medicine Foundation board. Her practice integrates museum experience with academic scholarship on art historiography.
