Faculty Profile
Denise Baxter
Title
Academic Associate Dean
Department
Toulouse Graduate School
College
University of North Texas
Professor
Art History
College of Visual Arts and Design
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Art Building107
- denise.baxter@unt.edu
- (940) 565-3986
Curriculum Vitae
Education
PhD, University of California at Santa Barbara, 2003.
Major: Art History
Degree Specialization: Major Field: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century European Art; Minor Field: Feminist Theory; Women's Studies Doctoral Emphasis
Dissertation Title: Dissertation: Fashions of Sociability in Jean-François de Troy’s tableaux de mode, 1725-1738
MA, University of California at Santa Barbara, 1998.
Major: Art History
Dissertation Title: 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*
ARTH 5809.001, Seminar in Eighteenth Century Art, Fall 2023
* Texas Education Code 51.974 (HB 2504) requires each institution of higher education to make available to the public, a syllabus for undergraduate lecture courses offered for credit by the institution.
Previous Scheduled Teaching*
ARTH 5849.755, Art History Research Project, Spring 2023
ARTH 5801.002, Topics in Art History, Spring 2023 SPOT
ARTH 5849.755, Art History Research Project, Spring 2022
ART 5900.755, Special Problems, Spring 2022
ARTH 5849.755, Art History Research Project, Fall 2021
ART 4450.755, Professional Internship, Fall 2021
ART 5700.501, Seminar in University Art Teaching, Fall 2021
ART 5900.755, Special Problems, Fall 2021
ART 4450.075, Professional Internship, Summer 5W2 2021
ART 4450.755, Professional Internship, Spring 2021 Syllabus
ART 5700.501, Seminar in University Art Teaching, Spring 2021
ART 5900.755, Special Problems, Spring 2021
ART 4450.755, Professional Internship, Fall 2020 Syllabus
ART 5700.501, Seminar in University Art Teaching, Fall 2020
ART 5900.755, Special Problems, Fall 2020 Syllabus
ART 5900.755, Special Problems, Summer 10W 2020 Syllabus
ART 4900.755, Special Problems, Spring 2020
ART 5900.755, Special Problems, Spring 2020 Syllabus
ART 5900.755, Special Problems, Summer 10W 2019
ART 5900.755, Special Problems, Spring 2018
ART 5900.795, Special Problems, Spring 2018
ART 5900.755, Special Problems, Fall 2017
AEAH 5849.755, Art History Research Project, Spring 2017
ART 5900.755, Special Problems, Spring 2017
ART 4450.755, Professional Internship, Summer 10W 2016
ART 5900.755, Special Problems, Spring 2016
ART 5900.795, Special Problems, Spring 2016
ART 5900.755, Special Problems, Fall 2015
ART 5900.795, Special Problems, Fall 2015
ART 6950.755, Doctoral Dissertation, Summer 10W 2015
AEAH 5849.755, Art History Research Project, Spring 2015
ART 6950.755, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2015
AEAH 5809.001, Seminar in Eighteenth Century Art, Spring 2015
AEAH 5809.791, Seminar in Eighteenth Century Art, Spring 2015
ART 5900.755, Special Problems, Spring 2015
AEAH 4809.0001, Topics in Eighteenth Century Art, Spring 2015
AEAH 5849.755, Art History Research Project, Fall 2014
ART 6950.755, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2014
AEAH 5809.001, Seminar in Eighteenth Century Art, Fall 2014
AEAH 5809.791, Seminar in Eighteenth Century Art, Fall 2014
ART 5900.755, Special Problems, Fall 2014
AEAH 4809.001, Topics in Eighteenth Century Art, Fall 2014 Syllabus
ART 4450.755, Professional Internship, Summer 10W 2014
ART 4450.755, Professional Internship, Summer 5W1 2014
AEAH 5849.755, Art History Research Project, Spring 2014
ART 4450.755, Professional Internship, Spring 2014
AEAH 5811.001, Seminar in Nineteenth Century Art, Spring 2014
ART 4900.755, Special Problems, Spring 2014
ART 5900.755, Special Problems, Spring 2014
AEAH 4800.001, Methodologies in the History of Art and Visual Culture, Fall 2013 Syllabus
AEAH 5800.001, Methodologies of Art History and Visual Culture, Fall 2013
ART 5900.755, Special Problems, Fall 2013
ART 5910.755, Special Problems, Fall 2013
ART 1301.001, Honors Art Appreciation, Summer 5W1 2013 Syllabus
ART 4900.755, Special Problems, Summer 5W2 2013
ART 5900.755, Special Problems, Spring 2013
AEAH 4809.001, Topics in Eighteenth Century Art, Spring 2013 Syllabus
AEAH 5849.755, Art History Research Project, Fall 2012
AEAH 5809.001, Seminar in Eighteenth Century Art, Fall 2012
ART 4450.755, Professional Internship, Summer 5W1 2012
ART 4900.755, Special Problems, Summer 5W2 2012
ART 5900.755, Special Problems, Summer 10W 2012
ART 5910.755, Special Problems, Summer 10W 2012
ART 6900.755, Special Problems, Summer 10W 2012
AEAH 5809.001, Seminar in Eighteenth Century Art, Spring 2012
AEAH 4800.001, Methodologies in the History of Art and Visual Culture, Fall 2011 Syllabus
ART 4450.755, Professional Internship, Fall 2011
ART 4900.755, Special Problems, Fall 2011
ART 5900.755, Special Problems, Fall 2011
ART 5900.755, Special Problems, Summer 5W1 2011
ART 5900.755, Special Problems, Summer 5W2 2011
ART 4450.755, Professional Internship, Spring 2011
ART 5900.755, Special Problems, Spring 2011
AEAH 4809.001, Topics in Eighteenth Century Art, Spring 2011 Syllabus
AEAH 4843.001, History of Photography, Fall 2010 Syllabus
ART 5900.755, Special Problems, Fall 2010
ART 1300.020, Art Appreciation for non art majors, Summer 10W 2010
ART 1300.026, Art Appreciation for non art majors, Summer 10W 2010
ART 2360.001, Art History Survey II, Spring 2010
AEAH 4800.001, Methodologies in the History of Art and Visual Culture, Fall 2009
AEAH 5849.755, Research Project, Fall 2009
AEAH 5809.001, Seminar in Eighteenth Century Art, Fall 2009
ART 2360.001, Art History Survey II, Summer 5W2 2009
ART 2360.090, Art History Survey II, Summer 10W 2009
ART 5900.755, Special Problems, Summer 2009
AEAH 4801.090, Topics in Art History, Summer 10W 2009
ART 2360.001, Art History Survey II, Spring 2009
ART 5950.755, Master's Thesis, Spring 2009
AEAH 5849.755, Research Project, Spring 2009
ART 4900.755, Special Problems, Spring 2009
ART 5900.755, Special Problems, Spring 2009
AEAH 4843.001, History of Photography, Fall 2008
AEAH 5843.001, History of Photography, Fall 2008
ART 5950.755, Master's Thesis, Fall 2008
ART 5900.755, Special Problems, Fall 2008
ART 2360.001, Art History Survey II, Spring 2008
ART 5950.755, Master's Thesis, Spring 2008
ART 5190.002, Seminar in Art History, Spring 2008
ART 4378.001, History of Photography, Fall 2007
ART 5950.755, Master's Thesis, Fall 2007
ART 5900.755, Special Problems, Fall 2007
ART 4070.001, Topics in Art History, Fall 2007
ART 4362.001, Topics in Nineteenth Century Art, Fall 2007
ART 4380.001, Eighteenth Century Art, Spring 2007
ART 5950.755, Master's Thesis, Spring 2007
ART 4305.001, Methodologies in the History of Art and Visual Culture, Spring 2007
ART 5190.001, Seminar in Art History, Spring 2007
ART 4900.755, Special Problems, Spring 2007
ART 4378.001, History of Photography, Fall 2006
ART 5379.001, History of Photography, Fall 2006
ART 5379.791, History of Photography, Fall 2006
ART 5950.755, Master's Thesis, Fall 2006
ART 4900.755, Special Problems, Fall 2006
ART 1300.001, Art Appreciation for non art majors, Summer 10W 2006
ART 5380.001, Seminar in Eighteenth Century Art, Summer 3W1 2006
ART 4900.755, Special Problems, Summer 5W2 2006
ART 5950.755, Master's Thesis, Spring 2006
ART 4305.001, Methodologies in the History of Art and Visual Culture, Spring 2006
ART 4360.001, Nineteenth Century Art, Spring 2006
ART 5900.755, Special Problems, Spring 2006
ART 4072.001, Seminar in Art History, Fall 2005
ART 5190.002, Seminar in Art History, Fall 2005
ART 4900.755, Special Problems, Fall 2005
ART 5900.755, Special Problems, Fall 2005
ART 5379.001, History of Photography, Spring 2005
ART 4305.001, Methodologies in the History of Art and Visual Culture, Spring 2005
ART 5190.002, Seminar in Art History, Spring 2005
ART 4900.755, Special Problems, Spring 2005
ART 1300.001, Art Appreciation for non art majors, Fall 2004
ART 4360.001, Nineteenth Century Art, Fall 2004
* Texas Education Code 51.974 (HB 2504) requires each institution of higher education to make available to the public, a syllabus for undergraduate lecture courses offered for credit by the institution.
Published Publications
Published Intellectual Contributions
Book
Baxter, D. A. (2017). A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Age of Empire. London: Bloomsbury.
Baxter, D. A. (2010). Architectural Space in Eighteenth-Century Europe: Constructing Identities and Interiors.
Book Chapter
Baxter, D. A. (2011). "Maternal Representations, Intersubjectivity, and the Making of the Self".
Baxter, D. A. (2010). "Whose Shoes?: Fashion History and Art History Methodologies".
Donahue-Wallace, K. T., Baxter, D. A. (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..
Baxter, D. A. (2009). "Grisettes, Cocottes, and Bohèmes: Fashion and Fiction in the 1820s,".
Baxter, D. A. (2007). "Fashions of Sociability in Jean-François de Troy's tableaux de mode, 1725-1738,".
Book Review
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. (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.
Baxter, D. A. (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..
Baxter, D. A. (2007). Review of Eleanor P. DeLorme, ed., Josephine and the Arts of Empire (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2005).
Baxter, D. A. (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).
Baxter, D. A. (2007). Review of Melissa Hyde, Making Up the Rococo: François Boucher and His Critics (Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2006).
Baxter, D. A. (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
Baxter, D. A. (2004). "Claude-Michel Clodion" and "Augustin Pajou" entries.
Journal Article
Baxter, D. A. (2008). "Parvenu or Honnête homme: The Collecting Practices of Germain-Louis de Chauvelin,".
Baxter, D. A. (2007). "'Your Kids Say Mom. Your Clothes Say Otherwise': Pregnant Fashion Dolls and Visual Culture".
Baxter, D. A. (2007). "Two Brutuses: Violence, Virtue, and Politics in the Visual Culture of the French Revolution,".
Awarded Grants
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. (September 1, 2016 – May 10, 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).
| Overall Summative Rating |
Challenge and Engagement Index |
Response Rate |
|---|---|---|
out of 5 |
out of 7 |
% of students responded |
- Overall Summative Rating (median):
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