| Debra Schafter has been a full-time art
history
professor in the Visual Arts and Technology Department at San Antonio
College
since Fall 1999. Prior to coming to SAC, she held
both staff and visiting faculty positions in the Department of Art
History at Trinity University in San Antonio, and served as
Assistant Instructor in the Department of Art and Art History at the
University
of Texas at Austin. While teaching at UT, Professor Schafter held
the position of Interim Curator of Ancient Art at the San Antonio
Museum
of Art.
Dr. Schafter earned her Doctoral degree
in Art History from the University of Texas at
Austin.
Her central area of reseach is modern European art, architecture,
design,
and theory, with publications on Central European art, architecture,
and
theory in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth
centuries. Her book , The Order of Ornament, the
Structure
of Style (Cambridge University Press, 2003), explores the
theoretical
foundations of early modernism in Central European art and
architecture. She is currently researching topics in 19th-century
visual culture, specifically the 19th-century obsession with the
'surface' of things, a focus that manifests itself not only in modern
architecture, sculpture and photography, but also dermatology,
phrenology, medical
illustration and the concept of the tattoo.
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