Roberta Weston

Post-Secondary Education

University of Texas Austin
Master of Arts
Art History

Teaching Experience

Austin Community College

  • Art Department Assistant Chair, fall 2023-current
  • Art Department Chair, fall 2018-summer 2023
  • Professor of Art History, fall 2006-Present.  Co-Chair, Art Department, 2009-2018
  • Adjunct Professor of Art History, fall 1995-summer 2006
  • Instructional Associate of Writing and Composition, NRG Learning Lab, summer 1999- summer 2006
  • Teaching Assistant II, NRG Learning Lab, Teaching fall 1995-spring 1999

Interim Chair, Art Dept. fall 2010-summer 2011 and fall 2016.

University of  Texas, Austin

  • Assistant Instructor of Art History, 1994-1996.  Instructor of record for Art History II survey and Introduction to Visual Arts.
  • Teaching Assistant, 1992-1994

Professional Publications

“Free Gift or Forced Figure? Jacques Derrida’s Usage of Hymen in The Double Session,” in Language and Liberation: Feminism, Philosophy and Language, edited by Christina Hendricks and Kelly Oliver.  Albany:  State University of New York Press, 299-320.

“A Critique of the Rhetoric of Woman as ‘Beneficent Figure’ in Derrida’s Corpus”  Paper delivered at Graduate Symposium on Gender and Feminist Studies at the University of Texas, Austin (Spring 1994).

Collaborated with other graduate-student instructors on curriculum development project featured in special issue of Art Journal, “Rethinking the Introductory Art History Survey,” 54:3 (Fall 1995), 75-78.

Education And Awards

1993-1998                            University of Texas                                    Austin, Texas

  • Completed all but dissertation toward Ph.D. in Art History.
  • Entered candidacy, February 1996.
  • Working dissertation title:  “The Gift: Symbolic Economies of Exchange in Post-War American Art.”

1989-1993                         University of Texas                                Austin, Texas

  • Master of Arts in Art History awarded January 1993.
  • Thesis title:  “Glancing at Touches: A Tactual Approach to the Early Art of Jasper Johns.”

1984-1989                          University of Colorado                      Denver, Colorado

  • Bachelor of Arts with Distinction.
  • Double major in Art History and History.
  • Nominated for Outstanding Graduating Senior.
  • Nominated for Truman Scholarship.

NISOD Excellence Award for teaching (2008)

Henry Luce Foundation American Art Dissertation Research Award (Fall 1996)

M.K. Hage Endowed Scholarship in the Fine Arts (Fall 1996)

Sherry and Tommy Jacks Graduate Art History Scholarship (Winter 1996)

Marshall Wells Endowed Scholarship in the Fine Arts (Winter 1995)

Published: August 20, 2024