Thyrza Nichols Goodeve

Art History I, Thesis Preparation

Thyrza Nichols Goodeve, PhD, is an art writer and hobby cartoodlist who writes “with” rather than “on” contemporary art and artists. Her interests range across art as a “structure of feeling”, human/nonhuman animal ontologies, the natural fantastic, the aesthetics of wonder, theories and practices of writing, the interview as essay, the history of modernism(s), surrealist methodologies, dystopias and utopias, and the metaphysics of technology. She has published in The Brooklyn Rail, Art Agenda, Artforum, Art in America, and numerous artist’s catalogs, Ellen Gallagher, (Anthony d’Offay,1999; Tom Friedman (Gagosian, 2008) Hadieh Shafie, (Leila Heller, 2012 and 2015); Joan Waltemath (C. Grimaldi, 2015). She has a Masters in Cinema Studies from NYU, and a PhD from The History of Consciousness Program at UC Santa Cruz. She is the author of How Like A Leaf: A Conversation with Donna Haraway (1999) and is working on an updated forthcoming edition, and compiling her collected writings titled, No Wound Ever Speaks for Itself: Writing, Art, Vulnerability, Conversation, Attitude with a preface by Avital Ronell. In June of 2017 she became the Senior Art Editor of The Brooklyn Rail.