Susan J. Baker is Professor of Art History at the University of Houston-Downtown (UHD) and has over thirty years of teaching experience in art history. Dr. Baker has taught courses in Medieval, Baroque, American, Modern, and Contemporary art as well as Gender and Art. She earned a Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Kansas in 1994 and came to UHD in 1995. An expert in early twentieth-century American painting, Dr. Baker has written on the life and work of artist George Tooker, and was curator of “Human in Form:  Later Drawings of Paul Cadmus,” an exhibit of male nude drawings held at the UHD O’Kane Gallery in 2004. In 2008, Dr. Baker contributed her article, "Naked Boys, Desiring Women: Images of Male Beauty in Modern Art and Photography," to Steven Davis and Maglina Lubovich, eds., Hunks, Hotties, and Pretty Boys: 20th Century Representations of Male Beauty, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, and in 2009 she published, “A Duel with Fernando de Rojas: Picasso’s Celestina Prints,” in Janus Head. Dr. Baker wrote an article with her sister Dr. Diane Baker, Professor of Management at Millsaps College, which was published in the Academy of Management Learning Journal in December of 2012, entitled, “To “Catch the Sparkling Glow”: A Canvas for Creativity for the Management Classroom.” Dr. Baker's most recent publications are, “Celestina and Other Old Salacious Allusions in George Tooker’s Toilette," Interdisciplinary Humanities, Fall 2014, and “Nothing There: The Mark Rothko Chapel and its Modern Approach to Myth,” in Edmund Cueva, Lessons in World Mythology: A Comparative Approach, Oxford Press: 2016.