Alumna Victoria Bradbury M.F.A. ’09 earned a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Award for 2026 and will serve as an instructor at the School of Innovation and Technology at the Glasgow School of Art in Glasgow, Scotland.
Bradbury, chair and associate professor of new media at University of North Carolina, Asheville, will spend Spring 2026 in Glasgow, teaching a masterclass in interactive digital storytelling and developing a virtual reality project at the School’s Regent Street Studios. Bradbury will also collaborate with new media professionals at other universities in the United Kingdom before returning to UNC Asheville in Fall 2026.
She is among 17 Scholar Award grantees from the United States who will be serving their awards in the UK. The awards are sponsored by the US-UK Fulbright Commission.
Bradbury specializes in interactive and immersive media storytelling. She received an Epic MegaGrant in 2020 and an NEH Connections Grant in 2022 to increase digital humanities capacity at UNC Asheville. In 2019, she co-taught “The Glass Electric: Glassblowing, Electroforming, Interactive Electronics” at Pilchuck Glass School.
Her artwork has been shown in exhibitions worldwide, including IEEE-GEM, xCoAx, the {Re}Happening, Harvestworks, the Albright Knox, Future Bodies, and The New Britain Museum of American Art.
