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Ann Barry teaches Visual Communication Theory, Advanced Visual Theory and Aesthetics, Visual Design, Film as Communication, and Novels into Film. She also acts as Assistant Director of the Boston College Capstone Program and teaches a Capstone seminar in Conflict, Decision and Communication. She is the author of Visual Intelligence (SUNY Press, 1997) , The Advertising Portfolio (NTC Business Books, 1990), a commissioned mediation handbook for the Crime and Justice Foundation, and numerous articles and chapters on Visual Communication Theory.

Professor Barry has been honored with the Distinguished Research Award by the International Visual Literacy Association (IVLA, 2002), the Visual Communication Commission Research Award of the National Communication Association (NCA, 2001). She is also recipient of the NBC / Carnegie Institute National Teacher's Award; the Distinguished Service Award of International Visual Literacy Association; the Distinguished Service Award of the Salem and Peabody Mediation Program; and is an invited faculty member of the Boston College chapter of the Golden Key National Honor Society.

Her work in advertising and visual design includes appointments as a Donald & Geraldine Hedberg Foundation Fellow, a YPPA Educational Fellow, an dvertising Educational Foundation Fellow; she has also acted as consulting professor with Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising Worldwide, New York, served as an advisor to the Advertising Educational Foundation~Milt Gossett Creative Workshop, and acted as a Visiting Professor at DDB Worldwide Advertising, New York.

Her educational background includes a B.S. in Education/ English (summa cum laude); an M.A. in English/ American Literature (with distinction), from Salem State College; an M.S. in Mass Communication, and a multi-disciplinary Ph.D. in Perceptual Psychology, Literature and Film from Boston University, where she was a University Scholar. Her background in conflict resolution includes training as a mediator with the Massachusetts District Courts and as an arbitrator with the Council of Better Business Bureaus.

Professionally, she has served on the Board of Directors of Massachusetts Association of Mediation Programs; the Board of Directors of the International Visual Literacy Association (IVLA); as IVLA vice-president; and as Chair of the Visual Communication group of the International Communication Association (ICA). She also serves the university as a member of the College of Arts & Sciences Educational Policy Committee, and is a founding member of the Eating Awareness Team university-wide initiative.

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