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Dr. Beth S. Wright is a Professor of Art History. Her doctoral and master’s degrees are from the University of California at Berkeley and she earned her bachelor’s degrees in art history and European history from Brandeis University. Her research centers on 18th and 19th century French art and its relationship to literature and historical representation. Her first book, Painting and History during the French Restoration: Abandoned by the Past (Cambridge U P, 1997) described how the conception of history and its visual representation changed after the French revolution, assessing paintings, museum exhibitions, illustrations, historiography, historical fiction, drama, and art criticism. Cited for its original approach in linking visual, textual, and historical issues, it received the Dallas Museum of Art’s Vasari award, designating the most outstanding publication by an art historian working in Texas. She has been invited to lecture at such venues as the National Gallery (London), the Tate (Britain) Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Kimbell Art Museum (Fort Worth). Dr. Wright has served since 2003 as Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, an academic unit in which almost 5,000 undergraduate and graduate students earn degrees in the departments of Art & Art History, Communication, Criminology & Criminal Justice, English, History, Linguistics & TESOL, Modern Languages, Music, Philosophy & Humanities, Political Science, Sociology & Anthropology, and Theatre Arts. Dr. Wright has been honored for her work in education. She is listed in Who’s Who of American Women and Who’s Who in American Education and has been designated a Great Woman of Texas Woman of Influence and a YWCA Tribute to Women in Business honoree.

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