Dr. Elizabeth C. Mansfield is the Vice President for Scholarly Programs at the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. She has taught art history at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee and the New York University. A scholar of modern European art and art historiography, her publications include articles and books and articles on topics ranging from Picasso’s Demoiselles d’Avignon to the origins of modernism to contemporary performance and body art of Orlan. Her 2007 book Too Beautiful to Picture: Zeus, Myth, and Mimesis was awarded the College Art Association’s Charles Rufus Morey book prize.