Joyce Medina

Joyce Medina

Senior Lecturer, School of Industrial Design

Joyce Medina

Senior Lecturer, School of Industrial Design

Joyce Medina teaches Art History surveys and Design History and Theory courses in the School of Industrial Design. She has a Ph.D. in Art History and Aesthetics from Emory University and is the author of a book on the French painter Paul Cezanne titled Cezanne and Modernism: The Poetics of Painting that focuses on hidden images in that artist’s paintings. 

She has been teaching at Gerogia Tech since 1999 and has participated in the Oxford Program, a summer study-abroad tour of Europe. Her current area of research is in Material Culture studies, which is a form of inquiry that maps the reciprocity of art and design with cultural conventions.

Education

  • Ph.D., Emory University, The Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts, 1990; areas of concentration: Art History, Aesthetics, Literature.
  • M.A., Emory University, The Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts, 1987; fields of study: Art History and Comparative Literature.
  • B.A., Georgia State University, 1979; major: English Literature.

Experience

  • Georgia Institute of Technology: Senior Lecturer, College of Design, School of Industrial Design, 1997-present.
  • Georgia State University:  Instructor, School of Art and Design, part-time 1990-1993; full-time appointment, 1996- 1997.
  • Emory University: Teaching Assistant, 1981-1987, Humanities Program, Art History Department; Teaching Associate, 1987-1990; Visiting Lecturer, Art History Department, 1993-1994.
  • The Atlanta College of Art: Instructor, Department of Liberal Arts, 1981-1985, 1990 -1997.
  • Southern Institute of Technology: Instructor, Humanities Department, 1991.