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BiographyMelissa A. Johnson is an Assistant Professor of Art History. She teaches in the areas of modern art and the history of photography. Johnson’s areas of research include the history of photography and photomontage, mass visual culture, the genre of artists’ books, the history of collecting, the archive, gender, and issues of memory. Her recent publications include her essay “Souvenirs of Amerika: the Weimar Mass-Media Scrapbook of Hannah Höch,” which appears in The Scrapbook in American Life (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2006). Works-in-progress include an essay on Hannah Höch and women’s cultural production and consumption during the 1920s, and another examining a trip Höch took to Italy in 1920. Johnson is the graduate coordinator of the new M.A. in Visual Culture, and oversees the monthly Colloquium on Visual Culture. | |
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