Flora Brandl is a PhD candidate in Art History at The Graduate Center, CUNY. Her research interests include global contemporary art, histories of performance art, postcolonial theory, and Cold War studies. She holds an M.A. in Contemporary Art Theory from Goldsmiths, University of London, and an M.A. in Performance Studies from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Flora has taught at Hunter College and at The Cooper Union, and was a Writing Across the Curriculum Fellow at Brooklyn College.