Professor Dr. Emilia Terracciano

Biography

Emilia Terracciano is a lecturer in Modern Art History at the University of Manchester, specializing in the histories of global modernism and visual cultures of modern and contemporary South Asia. She received the Nehru Trust Award and an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award for her research at the Victoria and Albert Museum in collaboration with the Courtauld Institute of Art, working on a project titled 'Beyond the Gaze: Collecting and Displaying Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art in the UK.' She has published on various topics, including abstraction, labor, craft practices, and the interplay between art and politics in India and Pakistan. Her notable publications include 'Art Emergency: Modernism in Twentieth-Century India' published by IB Tauris in 2018. Terracciano regularly collaborates with museums and contemporary artists around the world and contributes to well-known art presses. She has held fellowships, including a Bowra Fellowship at Wadham College, University of Oxford, and a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford. Her research interests align with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, contributing to global discussions around art, ecology, and social justice.

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