Melissa Ragain

Dr. Melissa Ragain is an Associate Professor at Montana State University, where she teaches courses on modern and contemporary art history, specializing in environmental aesthetics and the intellectual history of art. She is the author of Domesticating the Invisible: Form and Environmental Anxiety in Postwar America (University of California Press 2021), and the editor of Jack Burnham’s, Dissolve into Comprehension: Writings and Interviews, 1964-2004, (MIT Press 2015). Her writing has appeared in Art Journal, Hyperallergic, X-tra Contemporary Art Quarterly, ARTLIES, Criticism, and American Art. She was a 2010-11 Core Critical Studies Fellow at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, a 2016-17 Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University, and a recipient of a 2016 Art Writers Grant from the Warhol Foundation/ Creative Capital.