Dr. Melissa Johnson is Associate Professor of Art History at Illinois State University. She is a Core faculty member with the Women's & Gender Studies Program. Johnson has been a member of the ISU faculty since 2004 and teaches in the areas of modern art (collage, montage, and Dada), history of photography, theory, and visual culture. Dr. 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 "Weimar Cultural Production: Visual Pleasure and Radical Critique in the Work of Hannah Höch," in Essays on Women's Artistic and Cultural Contributions 1919-1939: Expanded Social Roles for the New Woman Following the First World War (The Edwin Mellen Press, 2009), and “Souvenirs of Amerika: the Weimar Mass-Media Scrapbook of Hannah Höch,” in the anthology The Scrapbook in American Life (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2006). A forthcoming essay, "Italy zerwühlt: Hannah Höch's Dadaist Italienreise," will appear in the journal Colloquia Germanica in 2015. She is currently at work on a book project examining the intersections between Höch's travels in the 1920s and her written and visual work. She is beginning work on a research project on the intersections of craft with modern and contemporary art and literature. Johnson holds a Ph.D. in art history from Bryn Mawr College, a M.I.L.S. in archives from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), and a B.A. in art history and English from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor). Dr. Johnson is the Graduate Coordinator for the MA in Visual Culture.