Acacia Warwick, Assistant Professor of Art History received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Art History from the University of California, Los Angeles, where she specialized in the study of modern art and film. Her dissertation, Pre-fabricated Desire: Surrealism, Mannequins, and the Fashioning of Modernity discusses the mannequin as a manifestation of the marvelous and uncanny in modern visual culture through its role as Ïersatz woman as opposed to sculpture. Her current research continues this exploration of the uncanny nature of the body/corpus in contemporary visual culture.