Dorota Łuczak is a PhD in art history and an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Art History, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, where she also serves as Head of the Modern and Contemporary Art History Research Unit. She is an editor of the journal Artium Quaestiones. She has been a recipient of research fellowships from the Corbridge Trust (University of Cambridge), the French Government, the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, and the Lanckoroński Foundation.

Her research focuses on the history and theory of photography in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In 2018, she published the monograph Foto-oko: Photographic Vision and Ocularcentrism in Art of the First Half of the Twentieth Century. She is a co-author of Polish Photographers, Critics, and Theorists on Photography, 1839–1989: An Anthology(2023). She has authored numerous articles on modern and contemporary photography published in journals such as History of Photography, Photography & Culture, Artium Quaestiones, Sztuka i Dokumentacja, Porównania, and Kwartalnik Fotografia, as well as in monographs and exhibition catalogues. She is currently working on a book devoted to the reproduction of works of art in the People’s Republic of Poland.