Acacia Warwick, Ph.D.

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 twentieth-century 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.  Current projects include Surrealism in American popular culture and the space of female disease in Agnes Varda's Cleo from 5 to 7.