Dr Jo Malt is Reader in French Literature & Visual Culture. Her research interests are in 20th- and 21st-century literature, visual art and theory. She is the author of a book on surrealism and politics and is currently writing another book on casts, imprints and traces in modern and contemporary art.
Her teaching focuses mainly on 19th- and 20th-century French literature, including a final-year course on Proust and an MA module on inter-war avant-gardes in France. She also teaches translation.
Theatre and Performance Publications
Articles and Book Chapters
Ekphrasis/exscription: Jean-Luc Nancy on Thinking and Touching Art. / Malt, Johanna Clare.Ekphrastic Encounters: New Interdisciplinary Essays on Literature and the Visual Arts . ed. / Richard Meek; David Kennedy. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2018. p. 219-236.
On Not Saying, Not Knowing and Thinking About Nothing : Adorno, Dionysius, Derrida and the Negation of Art. / Malt, Johanna.In: Paragraph: A Journal of Modern Critical Theory, Vol. 41, No. 2, 07.2018, p. 196-217.
The Edge of the Self: Casting and Moulding the Body in Modern and Contemporary Sculpture. / Malt, Johanna Clare.Spur der Arbeit: Oberfläche und Werkprozess. ed. / Magdalena Bushart; Henrike Haug. Vienna, Cologne, Weimar : Böhlau Verlag, 2018. (Interdependenzen. Die Künste und ihre Techniken; Vol. 3).
Cy Twombly : Sign, Meta-Sign and Sense. / Malt, Johanna Clare.In: Sillages critiques, 15.12.2016.
Vassiliki Rapti, Ludics in Surrealist Theatre and Beyond. / Malt, Johanna.In: MODERN DRAMA, Vol. 57, No. 2, 06.2014, p. 282-284.
The Blob and the Magic Lantern: On Subjectivity, Faciality and Projection. / Malt, Johanna.In: PARAGRAPH, Vol. 36, No. 3, N/A, 11.2013, p. 305-323.
The Image in its Absence. / Malt, Johanna.Meta- and Inter-Images in Contemporary Visual Art and Culture. ed. / Carla Taban. Leuven University Press and Peeters, 2013. p. 99-114.
Leaving Traces: Surface Contact in Ponge, Penone and Alÿs. / Malt, Johanna.In: Word and Image, Vol. 29, No. 1, 11.03.2013, p. 92-104.