Kelli Lyon Johnson
Assistant Professor of
English
Department
of English
Miami University Hamilton
1601 University Blvd.
Hamilton OH 45011
|
217 Rentschler Hall
(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
Assistant
Professor
of English
[tenure-track], 2003 - present
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,
2008 (co-editor, forthcoming)
Refereed
Articles
"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 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, 2007.
On-Line Publications
"Cristina García" and "Achy Obejas." Author web pages for Voices From the Gaps, a World
Wide Web
project that focuses on the lives and works of women writers of color
in North America.
The project is made possible through an ongoing collaborative effort
between
faculty and students in the Department
of
English and the Program
in American Studies at the University
of
Minnesota.
Work
in Progress
I am conducting
research on the value of narratives in human rights education, and I am
also beginning a project on the roles of emotion and engagement in
critical thinking. My
current book-length project focuses on
narrative and human rights.
Scholarly
Presentations_____________________________
Conference Papers
"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 Convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Chicago, November 2003
"'Honored
and Sacred Places': Women's Autohistoria,
Art, and Cultural Memory in the Borderlands." Annual Convention 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 Convention 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
"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, 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
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/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 - present
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- present
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 - present
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
Ohio Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on
Civil Rights, 2008 - present
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___________________________
Association for
the
Study of American Indian Literatures
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: 24
April 2008