Romita Ray received her B.A. in art history from Smith College and holds M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. degrees in art history from Yale University. Before coming to Syracuse in the fall of 2006, she taught at Colby College and at the University of Georgia. She also worked as curator of prints and drawings at the Georgia Museum of Art (UGA). Dr. Ray’s main area of interest is the art and architecture of the British Raj. She is currently working on a book on the art of the Picturesque in imperial India. Her second research project is on the visual history of tea consumption in Britain and the colonies. Dr. Ray has published articles and essays on imperial board-games, tea and imperial identity, Victorian gardens in India, and British women artists and travelers from the Raj. She is the guest-curator overseeing the British India section of Between Worlds: Voyagers to Britain 1700-1850, an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London (March 8-June 17, 2007). Dr. Ray has also curated many other exhibitions at the Georgia Museum of Art. She teaches a variety of courses from the introductory Arts & Ideas lecture to specialized graduate seminars. In particular, she covers European art and architecture (18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries), South Asian art and architecture, post-colonial theory, theories of Orientalism, and film studies. While she is not musing about tea and the Picturesque, Dr, Ray turns her attention to elephants. For those fans of pachyderms in art, an “Elephant of the Month” posting can be found outside her office door in Bowne Hall.