Bevin Butler recently completed her doctoral dissertation at Arizona State University and is now the Assistant Professor of Art History at Tennessee Tech University. Her dissertation, “Crafting Agency in Needle and Thread: “Nuns’ Work” and Textile Production in Late Medieval Monasteries,” critically interrogates the historic associations of textiles with femininity, the historiography regarding nuns’ contributions to the arts in the Middle Ages, and the ways in which nuns exercised agency through pictorial embroideries and tapestries at Kloster Lüne near Lüneburg, St. Walburg in Eichstätt, and Vadstena Abbey in Sweden.
Bevin is interested in critical theories related to gender in art and the history of categories such as craft, decorative or applied art, and fine art. She teaches a variety of art history courses in the School of Art, Craft & Design at TTU that engage students to see how developing an understanding of art and art history is essential to building empathy, applying critical thinking, and exercising visual literacy.
Congratulations Bevin on your graduation and assistant professorship! 
Are you interested in Bevin’s research? You can reach out via email at kbbutler@tntech.edu and follow her on instagram @beezas
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