Melissa Johnson

Research Interests & Areas

Dr. Johnson’s research focuses on the histories of modern and contemporary art, craft, collage & montage, and gender & identity. Her current research examines the intersection of craft with modern and contemporary art. She is currently working on a project that explores artists making work in response to the writings of Virginia Woolf and has a chapter in the forthcoming Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and Transnational Perspectives, titled “’A world where the body is as eloquent and articulate as the text’” SITI Company’s theatrical engagement with the writing of Virginia Woolf.” She’s deeply interested in situating her academic writing and her text- and textile-based work as parallel and, sometimes, integrated practices. She is working on two creative writing and textile projects, “Woolf Words” and “Haptic Investigations,” as well as a project on mending and repair.