Kelli Lyon Johnson
Associate Dean
Associate Professor of English
Associate
Dean
Miami University Hamilton
1601 University Blvd.
Hamilton OH 45011
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202K Mosler Hall (Deans' Suite)
(513) 785 3036
kjohnson@muohio.edu
www.users.muohio.edu/johnso58 |
Education________________________________________
Ph.D., English, Northern
Illinois University, 2003
Certificate of Graduate Study
in Women's Studies, 2000
M.A., French, Northern Illinois University, 1996
B.A., French, University of
Iowa, 1991
Certificate, Université Catholique de Lyon,
1990
Professional Appointments_____________________________
Miami University
Associate Dean,
Hamilton Campus, 2009 - present
Associate Professor of English, 2009 - present
Assistant Professor of English, 2003 - 2009
Affiliate,
Latin American Studies Program
Affiliate, Women's Studies Program
Acting Director, Latin American Studies Program, 2006-2007
Publications_______________________________________
Books
Julia Alvarez: Writing a New Place on the Map. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005.
Performing Worlds into Being: Native American
Women's Theater. Oxford, Ohio: Miami University Press, 2009 (co-editor)
Refereed Articles and Book Chapters
"Writing Home: Mapping Puerto Rican
Collective Memory in The House on the Lagoon." Writing Of(f) the
Hyphen: Critical Perspectives on the Literature of the Puerto Rican Diaspora.
Ed. José L. Torres-Padilla and Carmen H. Rivera. Seattle: University
of Washington Press, 2008. 239 - 55.
"Writing Deeper Maps: Mapmaking, Local
Indigenous Knowledges, and Literary Nationalism in Native Women's Writing."
Studies in American Indian Literatures
19.4 (Winter 2007): 103-20.
"'The Terrible Moral Disinheritance
of Exile': Asymptosy and Dis-integration in Julia Alvarez’s In the Name of Salomé." Journal of
Caribbean Literatures 4.1 (Fall 2005).
"Acts of War, Acts of Memory: 'Dead-Body Politics'
in U.S. Latina Fiction of the Salvadoran Civil War." Latino Studies 3 (2005): 200-225.
"Violence in the Borderlands: Crossing to
the Home Space in the Novels of Ana Castillo.” Frontiers: A Journal of
Women Studies 25:1 (Spring 2004): 39-58.
“Both Sides of the Massacre:
Collective Memory and Narrative on Hispaniola.” Mosaic: A Journal for
the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature 36.2 (June 2003): 75-91.
"Lost in el olvido:
Translation and Collective Memory in Achy Obejas's Days of Awe." The
Bilingual Review/La Revista Bilingüe 27.1 (January 2003): 34-44.
Book Reviews
Review of Lee Schweninger,
Listening to the Land: Native American Literary
Responses to the Landscape (University of Georgia Press, 2008).
Work in Progress
I am working on a book-length
study of the relationship between narratives and human rights.
Scholarly Presentations_____________________________
Conference Papers
"Stories and Service: Strategies for Developing Student Engagement."
Featured Presentation, Lilly Conference on College Teaching, Oxford, Ohio,
November 2009
"Thinking Critically and Writing Well: Shaping
Assignments to Improve Critical Thinking Skills." Featured Presentation,
Lilly Conference on College Teaching, Oxford, Ohio, November 2008.
"Thinking Critically about Communities: Human Rights, Empathy, and Narratives
of Connection." Plenary Presentation, Lilly Conference on College Teaching,
Oxford, Ohio, November 2007.
"Teaching Critical Thinking with Maps." Lilly West Conference on College
and University Teaching, Cal Poly Pomona, March 2007
"Recovering Local Knowledges: Maps in Chicana and Indigenous Women's Writings."
Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, December
2006
"Code-Switching in Contemporary Written Indigenous Literature: Native
Knowledges and
Cultural Survival." Annual Meeting
of the Modern Language Association,
Philadelphia, December
2006
"La Llorona Loca: Urban Violence and Womanhood in Chicana Literature."
Annual Conference of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature
of the United
States, Chicago, April 2005
"Remembering the Sacred Land: Calls to Aztlán." XXV Congress of
the Latin American Studies Association, Las Vegas, October 2004
"La Llorona/The Weeping Woman: Her Life and Afterlife in Chicano/a Literature."
Annual Conference of the Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature
of the United States, San Antonio, March 2004
"Found in Translation: Recuperating Cultural Memory through Language in
Chicana Fiction." Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, Louisville, February 2004
"Sites of Mourning: Corporal Inscriptions of the Salvadoran Civil War."
Annual Meeting of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Chicago, November 2003
"'Honored and Sacred Places': Women's Autohistoria, Art, and Cultural
Memory in the Borderlands." Annual Meeting of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Chicago, November 2003
"Turning the Page: Novels of the Japanese Internment and the Scrapbooks
of Memory." Midwest Conference on Language, Literature, and the Media,
DeKalb, March 2003
"Remembering the Trujillato: Language, Silence, and Memory in the
Novels of Edwidge Danticat and Julia Alvarez." Annual Meeting of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Minneapolis, November 2002
"Shakespeare's Interrupting Women." Sponsored Panel on "Shakespeare and
the Tradition of the Performing Arts: Gender in Performance." 37th International
Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 2002
"Gendering the 'Body Politic': Women's Political Space in Chicana Fiction."
Midwest Conference on Film, Language, and Literature, DeKalb, April 2002
"Improvising Women’s Lives: The Dis-integration of Exile in the Novels
of Julia Alvarez." Marquette University's 8th Annual Conference on Women and
Creativity, Milwaukee, March 2002
“Subversive Humor as Native American Resistance in Thomas King's Green
Grass, Running Water.” Midwest Conference on Film, Language, and Literature,
DeKalb, March 1998
Other Conference
Participation
Chair, "Human Rights and/in Literature." Peace Literature and Pedagogy, Annual
Meeting of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Milwaukee, November 2005
Selected Presentations and Invited Lectures
"Native Maps of North America." Miami University Hamilton Downtown,
May 2009
"Mapping the Americas: Native and European Maps of the Colonial Era." Teaching
American History Summer Institute, Miami University Hamilton, July 2008
"Seeing the World through Antique Maps." Miami University Hamilton Downtown,
January 2008
"Maps in the Literature Classroom: Teaching Theory and Critical Thinking."
CELT President's Day Retreat on Teaching, Miami University, February 2007
"Mapping Collective Memory in Chicana Literature: The Politics of Belonging."
Graduate Colloquium Lecture, Northern Illinois University, March 2006
"Finding the Way Home: The Map in Native American Women's Writing." Graduate
Colloquium Seminar, Northern Illinois University, March 2006
"The Map in Native American Women's Writing."
Women's Studies Affliate Seminar Series, Miami University, February 2006
"From Little Women to García Girls: The New National Narrative."
Faculty Seminar Lecture, Miami University Hamilton, January 2004
"Women's Participation in Resistance Movements:
Julia Alvarez's In the Time of the Butterflies." Women's History
Month, Northern Illinois University, March 2003
"Women Working in History." Women's History Month Program, Sycamore Junior
High School, Sycamore, March 2002
"Gestos Subversivos: Crossing to the Home Space in the Novels of
Ana Castillo." Arnold Fox Memorial Lecture, Northern Illinois University,
November 2001
"Language, Gender, and the Family." Women as Learners, College of Education,
Northern Illinois University, July 2000
Professional Grants, Awards,
and Development__________
Faculty Learning Community (Facilitator), Part-Time Faculty, Miami
University Regionals, 2009
Faculty Learning Community, Integrative Learning, Miami University Regionals,
2008 - 2009
Faculty Learning Community, The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Miami
University, 2008
Alumni Teaching Scholar, Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching
(CELT), Miami University, 2006-2007
Women's Leadership Award (Student Nomination), Miami University, Spring
2006
Assigned Research Appointment (Sabbatical), Miami University, Spring 2006
Faculty Research Funds, Miami University Hamilton, Washington DC, Fall
2005 and Summer 2006
Small Research Grant, College of Arts and Science, Miami University, Washington
DC, Fall 2005
Faculty Research Funds, Department of English, Washington DC, Fall 2005
Summer Research Grant, College of Arts and Science and Hamilton Campus,
Miami University, Summer 2005
Academic Excellence Fund Grant, Miami University Hamilton, Chicago, August
2005
Assessing Critical Thinking Project, Office of Liberal Education, Miami
University, Spring 2005
Small Instructional Grant, College of Arts and Science, Miami University,
Fall 2004
Faculty Research Funds, Miami University Hamilton, August 2004
NEH Summer Institute, Reading
Popular Cartography, Newberry Library, July-August 2004
Committee for Faculty Research Summer Research Appointment, Miami University,
Summer 2004
Small Grant Award, College of Arts and Science, Miami University, San
Antonio, Spring 2004
Faculty Research Funds, Miami University Hamilton, San Antonio, Spring
2004
Faculty Learning Community, Using Academic Service-Learning to Enhance
Learning and Civic Engagement, Miami University, 2003-2004
Courses Taught____________________________________
Miami University
BIS 301: Integrative Studies Seminar II
ENG 111: College Composition
ENG 112: Composition and Literature
ENG 143: Life and Thought in
American Literature, 1945-present
ENG/WMS 232: American Women
Writers
ENG 246: Native American
Literature
ENG 247: Appalachian Literature
ENG/LAS 254: Latino/a Literature
and the Americas
ENG 277: Independent Study: Madness in Women's
Literature, 1840-Present
ENG 298: Introduction to Literary and Cultural
Studies
ENG/WMS 468: Gender and Genre
ENG 477: Independent Study: Twentieth-Century U.S.
Women Writers
ENG 480: Independent Study for English Honors: Native
American Literature and Culture
ENG 495E: Capstone in Literature:
Ecology and Environment in Native American Literature
Professional Service________________________________
Peer Review
African American Review, Journal on Excellence
in College Teaching, Latino Studies, MELUS (Journal of the Society
for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States), Transformations, Women's Studies International
Forum
Service to Professional Organizations
Session Chair,
Peace Literature and Pedagogy, Midwest Modern Language Association, 2004-2005
Session Secretary, Peace Literature and Pedagogy, Midwest
Modern Language Association, 2003-2004
Miami University
Service to the University
Assessment Fellow,
Office of Liberal Education, 2007 - 2009
First in 2009 Subcommittee on Academic Integrity, 2005-2006
Humanities Documentary Unit Steering Committee, 2007
- 2008
Latin American Studies
Acting Director,
2006-2007
Member, Advisory
Committee, 2004- 2009
Student Affairs Council, 2004-2006
Summer
Reading Program Discussion Leader, August 2004
Service to the College of Arts and
Science
Academic Planning
Committee, 2004-2006
College of Arts and Science Curriculum Committee, 2004-2006
Divisional Appeals Board, 2006-2007
Service to the Department of English
Basic Writing Subcommittee,
2003-2005
ENG 112 Curriculum Subcommittee (Top 25 Project), 2005-2006;
2007-2009
Literature Committee, 2006-2007
Search Committee, Assistant Professor, Oxford Campus,
2006-2007
MLA Search Committee Representative,
December 2006
Search Committee, Visiting Assistant Professor, Hamilton
Campus, Summer 2006
Search Committee, Assistant Professor, Hamilton Campus,
2005-2006
Search Committee, Assistant Professor, Hamilton Campus,
2004-2005
MLA Search Committee Representative,
December 2004
Service to the Hamilton Campus
Admissions,
Advising, Retention, and Learning Assistance Committee (AARLAC), 2005-2007
Appalachian Studies
Committee, 2007 - present
Advisor, Association of
Latino and American Students, 2006 - 2009
Bachelor of Integrative Studies Degree Task Force,
2007
Campus Concerns Committee, 2003-2007
Diversity Committee, 2003-2005
Regional Campus Curriculum Coordinating Council, 2008
- 2011
Search Committee, Reading Specialist, Summer 2005
Search Committee, Coordinator of Disability Services,
Summer 2007
Scholarship Awards Committee, Spring 2004, Spring 2005,
Spring 2007
Service to the Community
Impact Council, Butler County United Way, 2009 - present
Ohio Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil
Rights, 2008 - 2010
Coordinator,
Read
to Feed Read-a-Thon for
Heifer International,
Fillmore Elementary School, Hamilton, Ohio, February - March 2008
Kids Ending Poverty Service Activity, Fillmore Elementary
School, Hamilton, Ohio, November 2007
Backpack Drive, School Readiness Program, Jefferson
Elementary School, Hamilton, Ohio, Summer 2007
Feed a Child's Imagination Book Drive, Jefferson Elementary School, Hamilton,
Ohio, Spring 2007
Professional Memberships___________________________
Midwest Modern Language Association
Modern Language Association
Society for
the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States
Languages________________________________________
French: Fluent
Spanish and Italian: Excellent Reading and Intermediate Speaking
Provençal and Latin: Reading
Last Updated: October
27, 2009