About Charissa: 

• Margaret M. McDermott Distinguished Chair in Art and Aesthetic Studies

• Professor of Art and Architectural History in the Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology at the University of Texas at Dallas

• Expertise in modern and contemporary art and architecture history, past and present avant-gardes, bio-art, interspecies art, and feminist eco-art

• 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:

• Charissa N. Terranova. Organic Modernism: from the British Bauhaus to Cybernetics. London: Bloomsbury Press, 2024.

• Charissa N. Terranova. Art as Organism: Biology and the Evolution of the Digital Image. London: Bloomsbury, 2022 [2016].

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

• Charissa N. Terranova and Meredith Tromble, Eds. The Routledge Companion to Biology in Art and Architecture. New York: Routledge Press, 2016.

• Charissa N. Terranova. Automotive Prosthetic: Technological Mediation and the Car in Conceptual Art. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2014.

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