Joanna Madloch has a Doctorate in Humanities from the University of Silesia (Poland). For the last fifteen years she has taught at Montclair State University, NJ. IShe has published over 30 scholarly articles dedicated to comparative literature topi...More
Joanna Madloch has a Doctorate in Humanities from the University of Silesia (Poland). For the last fifteen years she has taught at Montclair State University, NJ. IShe has published over 30 scholarly articles dedicated to comparative literature topics, as well as a book on Russian-American poet, Joseph Brodsky. Recently her academic interests focus on the juncture of verbal and pictorial arts with an emphasis on literature and photography. She explores the theory and practice of “photo-text” both in high-brow and popular culture, analyzing different aspects of incorporating photography into literary text. The produce of this latest fascination with photography is a series of articles dedicated to the picture of photographer in literature and arts, especially movies, in which she analyzed the character of photographer as an embodiment of cultural archetypes of a trickster and a monster. Her photographers have been exhibited in galleries in the US and in Europe.
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