Charissa N. Terranova is an environmental humanist reframing the history of art and architecture in the age of the Anthropocene, the geological epoch of human-driven climate change. She researches the role of nature, biology, and biotechnology in the history of art and design. She is Margaret M. McDermott Distinguished Chair in Art and Aesthetic Studies and Professor of Art and Architectural History in the Bass School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology at the University of Texas at Dallas where she teaches courses on past and present avant-gardes, modern architecture, and contemporary bio-art, interspecies art, and art-science eco-theory. She has authored and co-edited several books.