Arlington, TX 76019

817-272-1333

jwjohnson@uta.edu

Education:

Ph.D. University of Texas—Arlington, Literature, Dec. 2000.

M A. University of Texas—Arlington, English, Dec. 1993.

B. S. University of Florida, Business Administration, major in Marketing, May 1987.

Employment:

University of Texas—Arlington, Senior Lecturer, 2002 to present.

University of Texas—Arlington, Adjunct, 2001 to 2002.

University of Texas—Arlington, Graduate Teaching Asst., 1992–1995.

Dissertation: “Twice Removed: Nineteenth-Century Women Writing for Adults and Children, 1850–1900.” Director: Tim Morris.

Publications:

“’The Sun for a Shawl’: Florida’s Cultural Work in Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God.” Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Journal of Florida Literature 12 (2004).

“Chick Lit Jr.: More Than Just Glitz and Glamour.” Chick Lit, Chick Flicks. Eds. Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young. Routledge Press 2005.

Conferences and Panels:

“Discordant Tones: Rebecca Harding Davis’s Ambivalent Views on Domesticity.” Conference of College Teachers of English, Waco, TX, March 2005.

“The Wide, Wide Audience: Susan Warner Writing in the 1850s.” South Central Modern Language Association, New Orleans, LA, Oct. 28-30, 2004.

“Peach Wine and Moonlight.” Conference of College Teachers of English, Beaumont, TX, March 2004.

“’The Lord don’t often send just sech a gal’: Helen Hunt Jackson’s Traditional Woman.” Society for the Study of American Women Writers, Ft. Worth, TX, Sept. 2003.

“’Too Many Ideas’: Rose Hawthorne Lathrop’sUnconventional Path.” South Central Modern Language Association, Austin, TX, Nov. 2002.

"Egalitarian Courtship in Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’ The Silent Partner and The Story of Avis." South Central Modern Language Association, Tulsa, OK, Nov. 2001.

“One Size Fits All: The Lamplighter as a Dual-Audience Novel.” Children’s Literature Association, Buffalo, NY, June 2001.

“’The Sun for a Shawl’: Florida’s Cultural Work in Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God.” South Central Modern Language Association, San Antonio, TX, Nov. 2000.

“Smiling Through the Tears: The Saintly Female Death in Stowe, Alcott, and Phelps.” South Central Modern Language Association, New Orleans, LA, Nov. 1998.

“’Where doesn’t make any difference’: The Utopian State of Love in L’Engles A Wrinkle in Time and A Wind in the Door.” Children’s Literature Association, Durham, NH, June 1995.

“’After the First Payday’: The Mill Girl and Commercial Development in Nineteenth-Century Lowell, Massachusetts.” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies, Santa Cruz, CA, April 1995.

“The Rhetorical Woman in Alcott’s ‘Behind the Mask.’” Conference of College Teachers of English, Waco, TX, March 1995.

Teaching Interests:

Nineteenth and Twentieth Century American Literature,

Women’s Literature

African-American Literature

American Studies

Children’s and Adolescent Literature.

Courses Taught:

Freshman Expository Writing

Freshman Argumentative Writing

Argumentative Writing in the Computer Classroom

British Literature

Children’s Literature

Young Adult Literature

Creative Writing for Children and Young Adults

Professional Affiliations:

Modern Language Association

South Central Modern Language Association

Children’s Literature Association

Society for the Study of American Women Writers

Conference for the College Teachers of English