Patricia Gray Berman holds the title of Theodora L. & Stanley S. Feldberg Professor of Art at Wellesley College where she teaches Modern and Contemporary Art and Visual Culture, the History of Photography, and The Arts of Persuasion, and where she was awarded the Anna and Samuel Pinanski Teaching Prize in 2008. In 1997 she received the Whitehead Associate Professorship in Critical Thought, and in 2000, she became the Barbara Morris Caspersen Associate Professor of Humanities. She was faculty co-chair of the 1996 Summer Symposium for alumnae, "Making the Familiar Strange: Propaganda and Persuasion in the Twentieth Century."

A member of the Wellesley College faculty since 1987, she received a B.A. from Hampshire College in 1978. She received the M.A. degree, the Certificate of Museum Training, and the Ph.D. degree from New York University in 1980, 1981, and 1989, respectively.

Professor Berman's research focuses on Edvard Munch, modern Scandinavian and other European art, and photography. She has received, most recently, fellowships from the American Philosophical Society and the Fulbright Foundation to support her research on Edvard Munch. She has also received the Aurora Borealis Prize in Social Science from the Nordic Council of Ministers, a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, a residency at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, a grant from the American Philosophical Society, and the J. Clawson Mills Fellowship from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the American-Scandinavian Foundation.

Dr. Berman's most recent book is In Another Light: Danish Painting in the Nineteenth Century (Vendome Press, N.Y.; Thames & Hudson, London; and Aschehoug Forlag, Copenhagen, 2007). Published in many scholarly journals and anthologies, she is author and curator of Modern Hieroglyphs: Gestural Drawing and The European Vanguard, 1900–1918 (exhibition catalogue, Davis Museum and Cultural Center and the Equitable Collection, 1995); Munch and Women: Image and Myth (exhibition catalogue, San Diego Museum of Art, Portland (Oregon) Art Museum, and Yale University Art Gallery 1997); and the author of James Ensor: Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1889 (J. Paul Getty Museum, 2002). She was a contributor to Edvard Munch: The Modern Life of the Soul, the catalogue for the exhibition of the same name at the N.Y. Museum of Modern Art (2006).

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