BIOGRAPHY

Patricia Stout is a lecturer in art history in the College of Performance, Visualization and Fine Arts at Texas A&M University. She received a Ph.D. in Visual and Performing Arts from The University of Texas at Dallas in 2022 and specializes in modern and contemporary art history with an emphasis on 20th- and 21st-century Latin American art, film and visual culture. Her research centers on modern and contemporary Brazilian art and explores connections between community-based art, technology, urbanization and social justice.

She was the recipient of a two-year research fellowship at the Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History Research Center at the Dallas Museum of Art from 2019 to 2021, and has organized and co-chaired panels on modern and contemporary Latin American art at SECAC in 2024; the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) annual congress in 2022; and the College Art Association (CAA) annual conference in 2021. Stout has taught undergraduate- and graduate-level humanities courses at the University of North Texas, The University of Texas at Tyler and The University of Texas at Dallas before joining Texas A&M University.