Joyce Medina

Instructor, Industrial Design Program, Georgia Tech

Joyce Medina teaches Art History, Design History and Cultural Studies in the Industrial Design department in the College of Architecture where she has been a member of the faculty since 1997.

She received a PhD from Emory University in 1990 from the Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts with specialities in Art History, Aesthetics and Comparative Literature. Her disseration was on the theories, practice and paintings of the French Post-Impressionist Paul Cezanne. In 1995, she published a book on Paul Cezanne, Cezanne and Modernism: The Poetics of Painting, with SUNY Press.

She has taught as a visiting lecturer in the Art History departments at Emory University and Georgia State University and in the Humanities department at the Atlanta College of Art. She has also done consulting work in the Education department at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. Currently she is participating the the Oxford Program, a summer study abroad program at Georgia Tech.

Her research interests include 20th century art and design, Semiotics, Women's Studies and Cultural Studies. She is currently working on a research project on hidden imagery and language devices in the works of Cezanne, Matisse, Bacon, Salle and others.