Dr. Stephanie Chadwick is an associate professor of art history in the Department of Art at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas, and also the interim chair. She earned her Ph.D. from Rice University in Houston where her focus on twentieth-century art and visual culture built upon her background in nineteenth–century art, for which she completed an M.A. at Florida State University in Tallahassee. Her research interests include modern European art and theory with an emphasis on French painting; relationships between art, literature, and colonialism; and art as multi-cultural exchange.