Kelli Lyon Johnson
Director, Center for Civic Engagement
Associate Professor of English

Miami University Hamilton 1601 University Blvd. Hamilton OH 45011

100 Wilks Conference Center (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
    Director, Center for Civic Engagment, 2010 - present
    Associate Dean, Hamilton Campus, 2009 - 2010
    Associate Professor of English, 2009 - present
    Acting Director, Latin American Studies Program, 2006-2007
    Assistant Professor of English, 2003 - 2009
             Affiliate, Latin American Studies Program
Affiliate, Women's Studies Program




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_____________________________

Recent 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



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
"Engaging Education." Miami University Hamilton Downtown, June 2010

"Helping Haiti Build Back Better: What We Need to Know and How We Can Help." Miami University Hamilton Downtown, March 2010

"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



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
    BIS 401: Capstone in Integrative Studies
    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,  American Indian Quarterly, 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


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
     Strategic Enrollment Team (Chair), 2009 - 2010

Service to the Community
    Board Member, Boys and Girls Club of Hamilton, 2010 - present
    Lane Public Library Board of Trustees, 2010 - present
    Co-Chair, Community Action Council, Butler County United Way, 2010 - present
    Rotary International, 2009 - present
    Community Impact Council, Butler County United Way, 2009 - present
    Ohio Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, 2008 - 2010, 2010 - 2012 (reappointed)
    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: June 22, 2010