• Assistant Professor of Aesthetic Studies at The University of Texas at Dallas 
• Expertise in Post-WWII Art, Architecture and Urbanism and Media Theory
• 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

Charissa N. Terranova is Assistant Professor of Aesthetic Studies at The University of Texas at Dallas. She lectures and teaches seminars on art and architectural history, theory, and criticism and media and new media theory. She is a scholarly writer and freelance curator and critic working both nationally and internationally. In January 2010, she stepped down from the position of Founding Director and Chief Curator of Centraltrak: The UT Dallas Artists Residency in order to complete her scholarly manuscript.

Forthcoming from the University of Texas Press, Dr. Terranova’s book, Automotive Prosthetic: The Car, Technological Mediation, and the Conceptual Turn in Art, 1951-Present, focuses on conceptual art, the aesthetic experience of seeing the world in motion through the car window, and the global political economy of the automobile and petroleum products in the post-WWII period.