Betsy Boone
Professor, History of Art, Design, and Visual Culture
Coordinator, HADVC Graduate
Office: 3-98 Fine Arts Building
(780) 492-9993
betsy.boone@ualberta.ca
Areas of Teaching and Research
Art and visual culture in the United States, Spain, and Latin America in the long nineteenth century; trans-national relations and national identity; exhibitions and display; the representation of animals; masquerade, memory, and mimicry.
Biography
MA University of California, Berkeley, 1985; PhD City University of New York, 1996
Betsy Boone is Professor of the History of Art, Design and Visual Culture at the University of Alberta in Canada. Betsy works on nineteenth and twentieth-century art in Western Europe and the Americas and is particularly interested in trans-national relations, the role of art in the development of national identity, and the representation of animals. Betsy publishes in English and Spanish and has completed several books, Vistas de España: American Views of Art and Life in Spain, 1860–1914 (Yale 2007) and “The Spanish Element in Our Nationality”: Spain and America at the World’s Fairs and Centennial Celebrations, 1876-1915 (Pennsylvania State 2019). This last was also published in a Spanish translation titled España y América: Construcción de la identidad en las exposiciones internacionales, 1876-1915 (Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica 2022). Betsy loves animals, especially cats and horses. She rides regularly at a barn near Edmonton and is currently working on a book about the exhibition of animals in Europe and America.
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