About Charissa: 

• Professor of Art and Architectural History at The University of Texas at Dallas 

• Expertise in Modern and Contemporary Art and Architectural History, History of Biology in Art and Architecture, New Media Art History, History of Urbanism

• Freelance Curator and Critic

• Ph.D. Harvard University, Architectural History and Theory, 2004

• M.A. Harvard University, Architectural History and Theory, 2001

• M.A. University of Illinois at Chicago, Art History, 1996

• B.A. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Art History, 1992

Books and Edited Volumes

• Organic Modernism: from the British Bauhaus to Cybernetics, forthcoming from Bloomsbury Press

• D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's Generative Influences in Art, Design, and Architecture: From Forces to Forms, an anthology coedited by Ellen K. Levy and Charissa N. Terranova, Bloomsbury Press, 2021

• Routledge Companion to Biology in Art and Architecture, an anthology coedited by Charissa N. Terranova and Meredith Tromble, Routledge Press, 2016

• Editor of double-issue of Technoetic Arts devoted to "Complexism,” Intellect Ltd., 2016

• Art as Organism: Biology and the Evolution of the Digital Image, Bloomsbury, 2022 (paperback); I. B. Tauris, 2016 (hardback)

• Automotive Prosthetic: Technological Mediation and the Car in Conceptual Art, University of Texas Press, 2014

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