College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Lyrica Taylor, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Art History at Azusa Pacific University, California, as well as the Director of the Masters in Modern Art History, Theory and Criticism. She focuses on the history of Modern British Art and received her Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Maryland, College Park. Taylor has presented her research at multiple conferences, including at the Universities of Oxford, London, Edinburgh, and Leeds; the College Art Association (U.S.); the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand; and the Association of Art Historians (U.K.). She has held internships at Tate Britain; the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens; the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery; and the National Endowment for the Arts.