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Emilia Terracciano’s research interests lie in modern and contemporary art with a focus on South Asia. She has a BA in Philosophy and History of Art from University College London (First Class Hons), an MA in History of Art (Distinction) and a PhD from The Courtauld Institute of Art. She was the recipient of the Nehru Trust Award (2008) and the AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award scholarship at the Victoria and Albert Museum (2008-2012).

Emilia has taught in various institutions including: University College London, The Courtauld Institute, The Sothebyʼs Institute of Art and Christieʼs Education. She has delivered talks at MoMA, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Lahore Biennale (L01), Tate Modern, Drawing Room, The Photographer’s Gallery, V&A, Yale Centre for British Art at Yale University and London, Princeton University, Wadham College, University of Oxford, the University of York, the University of Edinburgh, SOAS and Kingʼs College London. She currently lectures in Modern Art at Manchester University. Her book Art and Emergency: Modernism in twentieth-century India was published by IB Tauris in 2018.

Sita Reddy is an independent scholar and museum curator based in Hyderabad who writes on a range of topics at the intersection of art and science ranging from the history of natural medicine to the decolonization of museums and archival justice. Most recently, she guest-edited Marg magazine’s first-ever special issue on botanical art: The Weight of a Petal: Ars Botanica. She has been Fellow at the Smithsonian Institution and Wellcome Library, and visiting professor at the University of Hyderabad (Dept of Fine Arts), and her curatorial experience includes exhibitions on Yoga, Ayurveda, forensic medicine, criminal photography and contemporary art. She is currently working on a book on the Indian medicinal herbal archive, provisionally titled The Jangala Books. She blogs occasionally at ajeebghar.com and runs the online portal arsbotanica.net.