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Denise A. Baxter

Title: Professor

Department: Art History

College: College of Visual Arts and Design

Curriculum Vitae

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Education

  • PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2003
    Major: Art History
    Specialization: Major Field: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century European Art; Minor Field: Feminist Theory; Women's Studies Doctoral Emphasis
    Dissertation: Fashions of Sociability in Jean-François de Troy’s tableaux de mode, 1725-1738
  • MA, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1998
    Major: Art History
    Dissertation: La vertu mâle et républicaine: Brutus in the Cultural Imaginary of the French Revolution
  • BA, Vassar College, 1994
    Major: Art History and French Literature

Current Scheduled Teaching

ART 2360.420Art History Survey IISpring 2025
ARTH 4850.001Dress and Fashion: Early Modern to ContemporarySpring 2025

Previous Scheduled Teaching

ART 3996.002Honors College Mentored Research ExperienceSummer 10W 2024
ARTE 5940.888Seminar in Art MuseumsSummer 3W1 2024 SPOT
ART 4940.888Understanding Art MuseumsSummer 3W1 2024 Syllabus SPOT
ARTH 4850.001Dress and Fashion: Early Modern to ContemporarySpring 2024 Syllabus SPOT
ARTH 5809.001Seminar in Eighteenth Century ArtFall 2023 SPOT
ARTH 5849.755Art History Research ProjectSpring 2023
ARTH 4801.002Topics in Art HistorySpring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
ARTH 5801.002Topics in Art HistorySpring 2023 SPOT
ARTH 5849.755Art History Research ProjectSpring 2022
ART 5900.755Special ProblemsSpring 2022
ART 4940.001Understanding Art MuseumsSpring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
ARTH 5849.755Art History Research ProjectFall 2021
ART 4450.755Professional InternshipFall 2021
ART 5700.501Seminar in University Art TeachingFall 2021
ART 5900.755Special ProblemsFall 2021
ART 4450.075Professional InternshipSummer 5W2 2021
ART 4450.755Professional InternshipSpring 2021 Syllabus
ART 5700.501Seminar in University Art TeachingSpring 2021
ART 5900.755Special ProblemsSpring 2021
ART 4450.755Professional InternshipFall 2020 Syllabus
ART 5700.501Seminar in University Art TeachingFall 2020
ART 5900.755Special ProblemsFall 2020
ART 5900.755Special ProblemsSummer 10W 2020
ART 4900.755Special ProblemsSpring 2020
ART 5900.755Special ProblemsSpring 2020
ART 5900.755Special ProblemsSummer 10W 2019
ART 5900.755Special ProblemsSpring 2018
ART 5900.795Special ProblemsSpring 2018
AEAH 4848.001Art History Senior SeminarFall 2017 Syllabus SPOT
ART 5900.755Special ProblemsFall 2017
AEAH 5849.755Art History Research ProjectSpring 2017
ART 5900.755Special ProblemsSpring 2017
AEAH 4809.001Topics in Eighteenth Century ArtFall 2016 Syllabus SPOT
ART 4450.755Professional InternshipSummer 10W 2016
ART 5900.755Special ProblemsSpring 2016
ART 5900.795Special ProblemsSpring 2016
ART 5900.755Special ProblemsFall 2015
ART 5900.795Special ProblemsFall 2015
AEAH 4809.001Topics in Eighteenth Century ArtFall 2015 Syllabus SPOT
ART 6950.755Doctoral DissertationSummer 10W 2015
AEAH 5849.755Art History Research ProjectSpring 2015
ART 6950.755Doctoral DissertationSpring 2015
AEAH 5809.001Seminar in Eighteenth Century ArtSpring 2015
AEAH 5809.791Seminar in Eighteenth Century ArtSpring 2015
ART 5900.755Special ProblemsSpring 2015
AEAH 4809.0001Topics in Eighteenth Century ArtSpring 2015
AEAH 5849.755Art History Research ProjectFall 2014
ART 6950.755Doctoral DissertationFall 2014
AEAH 5809.001Seminar in Eighteenth Century ArtFall 2014
AEAH 5809.791Seminar in Eighteenth Century ArtFall 2014
ART 5900.755Special ProblemsFall 2014
AEAH 4809.001Topics in Eighteenth Century ArtFall 2014 Syllabus
ART 4450.755Professional InternshipSummer 10W 2014
ART 4450.755Professional InternshipSummer 5W1 2014
AEAH 5849.755Art History Research ProjectSpring 2014
ART 4450.755Professional InternshipSpring 2014
AEAH 5811.001Seminar in Nineteenth Century ArtSpring 2014
ART 4900.755Special ProblemsSpring 2014
ART 5900.755Special ProblemsSpring 2014
AEAH 4800.001Methodologies in the History of Art and Visual CultureFall 2013 Syllabus
AEAH 5800.001Methodologies of Art History and Visual CultureFall 2013
ART 5900.755Special ProblemsFall 2013
ART 5910.755Special ProblemsFall 2013
ART 1301.001Honors Art AppreciationSummer 5W1 2013 Syllabus
ART 4900.755Special ProblemsSummer 5W2 2013
ART 5900.755Special ProblemsSpring 2013
AEAH 4809.001Topics in Eighteenth Century ArtSpring 2013 Syllabus
AEAH 5849.755Art History Research ProjectFall 2012
AEAH 5809.001Seminar in Eighteenth Century ArtFall 2012
ART 4450.755Professional InternshipSummer 5W1 2012
ART 4900.755Special ProblemsSummer 5W2 2012
ART 5900.755Special ProblemsSummer 10W 2012
ART 5910.755Special ProblemsSummer 10W 2012
ART 6900.755Special ProblemsSummer 10W 2012
AEAH 5809.001Seminar in Eighteenth Century ArtSpring 2012
AEAH 4800.001Methodologies in the History of Art and Visual CultureFall 2011 Syllabus
ART 4450.755Professional InternshipFall 2011
ART 4900.755Special ProblemsFall 2011
ART 5900.755Special ProblemsFall 2011
ART 5900.755Special ProblemsSummer 5W1 2011
ART 5900.755Special ProblemsSummer 5W2 2011
ART 4450.755Professional InternshipSpring 2011
ART 5900.755Special ProblemsSpring 2011
AEAH 4809.001Topics in Eighteenth Century ArtSpring 2011 Syllabus
AEAH 4843.001History of PhotographyFall 2010 Syllabus
ART 5900.755Special ProblemsFall 2010
ART 1300.020Art Appreciation for non art majorsSummer 10W 2010
ART 1300.026Art Appreciation for non art majorsSummer 10W 2010
ART 2360.001Art History Survey IISpring 2010
AEAH 4800.001Methodologies in the History of Art and Visual CultureFall 2009
AEAH 5849.755Research ProjectFall 2009
AEAH 5809.001Seminar in Eighteenth Century ArtFall 2009
ART 2360.001Art History Survey IISummer 5W2 2009
ART 2360.090Art History Survey IISummer 10W 2009
ART 5900.755Special ProblemsSummer SUM 2009
AEAH 4801.090Topics in Art HistorySummer 10W 2009
ART 2360.001Art History Survey IISpring 2009
ART 5950.755Master's ThesisSpring 2009
AEAH 5849.755Research ProjectSpring 2009
ART 4900.755Special ProblemsSpring 2009
ART 5900.755Special ProblemsSpring 2009
AEAH 4843.001History of PhotographyFall 2008
AEAH 5843.001History of PhotographyFall 2008
ART 5950.755Master's ThesisFall 2008
ART 5900.755Special ProblemsFall 2008
ART 2360.001Art History Survey IISpring 2008
ART 5950.755Master's ThesisSpring 2008
ART 5190.002Seminar in Art HistorySpring 2008
ART 4378.001History of PhotographyFall 2007
ART 5950.755Master's ThesisFall 2007
ART 5900.755Special ProblemsFall 2007
ART 4070.001Topics in Art HistoryFall 2007
ART 4362.001Topics in Nineteenth Century ArtFall 2007
ART 4380.001Eighteenth Century ArtSpring 2007
ART 5950.755Master's ThesisSpring 2007
ART 4305.001Methodologies in the History of Art and Visual CultureSpring 2007
ART 5190.001Seminar in Art HistorySpring 2007
ART 4900.755Special ProblemsSpring 2007
ART 4378.001History of PhotographyFall 2006
ART 5379.001History of PhotographyFall 2006
ART 5379.791History of PhotographyFall 2006
ART 5950.755Master's ThesisFall 2006
ART 4900.755Special ProblemsFall 2006
ART 1300.001Art Appreciation for non art majorsSummer 10W 2006
ART 5380.001Seminar in Eighteenth Century ArtSummer 3W1 2006
ART 4900.755Special ProblemsSummer 5W2 2006
ART 5950.755Master's ThesisSpring 2006
ART 4305.001Methodologies in the History of Art and Visual CultureSpring 2006
ART 4360.001Nineteenth Century ArtSpring 2006
ART 5900.755Special ProblemsSpring 2006
ART 4072.001Seminar in Art HistoryFall 2005
ART 5190.002Seminar in Art HistoryFall 2005
ART 4900.755Special ProblemsFall 2005
ART 5900.755Special ProblemsFall 2005
ART 5379.001History of PhotographySpring 2005
ART 4305.001Methodologies in the History of Art and Visual CultureSpring 2005
ART 5190.002Seminar in Art HistorySpring 2005
ART 4900.755Special ProblemsSpring 2005
ART 1300.001Art Appreciation for non art majorsFall 2004
ART 4360.001Nineteenth Century ArtFall 2004

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Book

  • Baxter, D.A. (2017). A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Age of Empire. London, Bloomsbury.
  • Denise Amy Baxter and Meredith Martin. (2010). Architectural Space in Eighteenth-Century Europe: Constructing Identities and Interiors.
  • Book Chapter

  • Denise Amy Baxter and Sara Wilson McKay. (2011). "Maternal Representations, Intersubjectivity, and the Making of the Self".
  • Denise Amy Baxter. (2010). "Whose Shoes?: Fashion History and Art History Methodologies".
  • Denise Amy Baxter and Kelly Donahue-Wallace. (2010). Case Study: Redesigning Art History Survey II. Next Generation Course Redesign. New York, Peter Lang.
  • Baxter, D.A. (2010). Denise Amy Baxter and Kelly Donahue-Wallace, "Case Study: Redesigning Art History Survey II" in Philip M. Turner and Ronald S. Carriveau, eds., Next Generation Course Redesign (New York: Peter Lang, 2010): 89-101..
  • Denise Amy Baxter; Editors Peter NcNeil, Vicki Karaminas, and Catherine Cole. (2009). "Grisettes, Cocottes, and Bohèmes: Fashion and Fiction in the 1820s,".
  • Denise Amy Baxter. (2007). "Fashions of Sociability in Jean-François de Troy's tableaux de mode, 1725-1738,".
  • Book Review

  • Baxter, D.A. (2024). Review of The Legacy of Vesuvius: Bourbon Discoveries on the Bay of Naples. The Burlington Magazine. 166 1251-1253.
  • Baxter, D.A. (2023). Review of Reva Wolf and Alisa Luxenburg, eds., Freemasonry and the Visual Arts from the Eighteenth Century Forward: Historical and Global Perspectives (New York: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020). Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies. 56 (2) 327-329.
  • Baxter, D.A. (2022). Review of Elizabeth L. Block, Dressing Up: The Women Who Influenced French Fashion (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2021). Dress: The Journal of the Costume Society of America. 57 (1) https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/6K6WPAKSMDFZCVY9N9WT/full?target=10.1080/03612112.2022.2152973
  • Baxter, D.A. Review of Amelia Rauser The Age of Undress: Art, Fashion, and the Classical Ideal in the 1790s (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020) and Hilary Davidson, Dress in the Age of Jane Austen (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019). The Journal of Modern History. 95 (3) 704-706.
  • Baxter, D.A. (2015). Review of Christine Casey and Conor Lucey, eds., Decorative Plasterwork in Ireland and Europe: Ornament and the Early Modern Interior (London: Four Courts Press, 2012). 74 (1) 121-123.
  • Denise Amy Baxter. (2009). Review of Alain Lescart, Splendeurs et misères de la grisette: Évolution d'une figure emblématique. (Paris: Honoré Champion, 2008), Women in French Studies 17 (2009): 197-199..
  • Denise Amy Baxter. (2007). Review of Eleanor P. DeLorme, ed., Josephine and the Arts of Empire (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2005).
  • Denise Amy Baxter. (2007). Review of Julia Douthwaite and Mary Vidal, eds., The Interdisciplinary Century: Tensions and Convergences in Eighteenth-Century Art, History, and Literature (Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation, 2005).
  • Denise Amy Baxter. (2007). Review of Melissa Hyde, Making Up the Rococo: François Boucher and His Critics (Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2006).
  • Denise Amy Baxter. (2003). Review of Emilie E.S. Gordenker, Van Dyck (1599-1641) and the Representation of Dress in Seventeenth-Century Portraiture (Ternhout: Brepols, 2001).
  • Encyclopedia Article

  • Denise Amy Baxter. (2004). "Claude-Michel Clodion" and "Augustin Pajou" entries.
  • Journal Article

  • Denise Amy Baxter. (2008). "Parvenu or Honnête homme: The Collecting Practices of Germain-Louis de Chauvelin,".
  • Denise Amy Baxter and Sara Wilson McKay. (2007). "'Your Kids Say Mom. Your Clothes Say Otherwise': Pregnant Fashion Dolls and Visual Culture".
  • Denise Amy Baxter. (2007). "Two Brutuses: Violence, Virtue, and Politics in the Visual Culture of the French Revolution,".

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

    Grant - Research

  • Keralis, S.D. (Principal), Way, J.E. (Co-Principal), Baxter, D.A. (Supporting), Barham, R. (Supporting), Andrews, P. (Supporting), Burns, D. (Supporting), Treat, L. (Supporting), Smith, S. (Supporting), Henson, B. (Supporting), "Faculty Mentoring Grant: Critical Digital Pedagogy," sponsored by Vice Provost for Faculty Success, University of North Texas, $5000 Funded. (2016 - 2017).
  • Grant - Service

  • Baxter, D.A., "Faculty Mentoring Grant: Art Foundations, College of Visual Arts and Design," sponsored by Vice Provost for Faculty Success, University of North Texas, $2000 Funded. (2017 - 2018).
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    This rating represents the combined responses of students to the four global summative items and is presented to provide an overall index of the class’s quality. Overall summative statements include the following (response options include a Likert scale ranging from 5 = Excellent, 3 = Good, and 1= Very poor):
    • The course as a whole was
    • The course content was
    • The instructor’s contribution to the course was
    • The instructor’s effectiveness in teaching the subject matter was
  • Challenge and Engagement Index:
    This rating combines student responses to several SPOT items relating to how academically challenging students found the course to be and how engaged they were. Challenge and Engagement Index items include the following (response options include a Likert scale ranging from 7 = Much higher, 4 = Average, and 1 = Much lower):
    • Do you expect your grade in this course to be
    • The intellectual challenge presented was
    • The amount of effort you put into this course was
    • The amount of effort to succeed in this course was
    • Your involvement in course (doing assignments, attending classes, etc.) was
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