Art History students in Paris at the Louvre Museum

Mary Campbell received her Ph.D. in art history from Stanford University, her JD from Yale Law School, and her BA from Brown University, where she majored in art. She teaches the history of American art, first colonial contact through 1945. As a lawyer who specialized in intellectual property, she also teaches classes that focus on the laws governing the creation, circulation, and protection of art objects. Her current scholarship focuses on the art of the Knoxville-born painter Beauford Delaney. Her forthcoming book on the artist will be the first dedicated entirely to his work.

Campbell’s research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, UTK’s Denbo Center, the Stanford Humanities Center, UTK’s Award for New Research, Scholarly and Creative Projects in the Arts & Humanities, and the School of Art’s Dale G. Cleaver Fellowship. She is currently a Lindsay Young Professor at the School of Art.

Campbell’s publications include Beauford’s Sound (Princeton University Press, forthcoming); Charles Ellis Johnson and the Erotic Mormon Image (University of Chicago, 2016); “Success in Circuits Lies: Brigham Young’s Big Ten” in A Guide to Mormon Art: From the Beginning to the Present, ed. Laura Allred Hurtado (New York: Oxford University Press, 2024); “Beauford in Ecstasy,” in Be Your Wonderful Self: The Portraits of Beauford Delaney (New York: The Rosenfeld Gallery, 2021); “‘I Will Not Be Moved’: Beauford Delaney’s (Self-) Portraits of Rosa Parks,” in Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin: Through the Unusual Door (Knoxville, TN: Knoxville Museum of Art, 2020); and “Art and Gender in Mormonism,” in The Routledge Handbook on Mormonism and Gender Studies (New York: Routledge, 2020).

Mcampb33@utk.edu @marycaulouvre