Dr. Devon Smither is Associate Dean and Associate Professor of Art History/Museum Studies in the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Lethbridge. Her research and teaching examine the intersections of nation-building and the visual arts, and the development of modern art and culture in early twentieth-century Canada and North America with a specific focus on women artists. Her research has been generously funded by, among other sources, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, The Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art, and the Terra Foundation for American Art. Her research has been published in RACAR: Canadian Art Review, Sociology Lens, and the Literary Review of Canada, among others. She is the co-author of CanadARThistories: Reimagining the Canadian Art History Survey, the first Open Educational Resource on Canadian and Indigenous Art and her research on the nude in Canadian painting and photography as been published in Censoring Art: Silencing the Artwork, edited by Roisin Kennedy and Riann Coulter (2018) and is the subject of a current monograph on contract with McGill-Queen’s University Press (forthcoming). She is a founding member of Open Art Histories and Art Under the Big Sky: The Prairie Art Network and is the current English Reviews Editor at RACAR. She holds a BA with Distinction from the University of Alberta, an MA in Art History from the University of British Columbia and a PhD from the University of Toronto.