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Sharon P. Johnson

Sharon P. Johnson, Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies

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Sharon P. Johnson, Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies

Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures
317 Major Williams Hall 
220 Stanger Street
Blacksburg, VA 24061
540-231-9859 | spjohnson@vt.edu

Sharon P. Johnson is an associate professor of French and Francophone studies in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures. 

  • 19th-century Literature and Painting
  • Paris in the 19th-Century
  • Flaubert, Maupassant, Zola
  • Rape in 19th-century Penny Presses, French Jurisprudence and Medical Reports
  • PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1996
  • M.A. and PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • B.A. Kalamazoo College
  • August 10 2016-August 10 2022: Director of Women’s and Gender Studies
  • Modern Language Association

 

Professional Affiliations 

  • Modern Languages Association (MLA)
  • Nineteenth-Century French Studies (NCFS)
  • Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies (INCS)
  • Association canadienne des études francophones du XIXe siècle (ACÉF-XIX)
  • Society of Dix-Neuvièmistes (SDN)
  • American Association of Teachers of French (AATF)
  • National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) 

 

  • Recipient of the William E. Wine Teaching Award, spring 2011
  • Recipient of the Diggs Teaching Scholar Award, spring 2004
  • University Exemplary Department Award (collaborations between the French Program of FLL and Pamplin College of Business), fall 2003

Books

Boundaries of Acceptability: Flaubert, Maupassant, Cézanne, and Cassatt. New York: Peter Lang, 2000.

Journal Articles

“Battles Waged and Won: The Apprenticeship of Antoinette Lemire.” Nineteenth-Century Contexts: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Vol 40. No. 5 (2019).  pp. 185-205. Sharon P. Johnson.

"Glissements discursifs et rhétoriques : des récits de viol dans le conte de fées, la jurisprudence et les canards sanglants de l’Ancien Régime." Canards, occasionnels, éphémères « Information » et infralittérature en France à l’aube des temps modernes. Eds. Silvia Liebel et Jean-Claude Arnould. CÉRÉdI – Centre d’Études et de Recherches Éditer / Interpréter, 2019. http://publis-shs.univ rouen.fr/ceredi/index. php?id=691

“Cultural Blindness and Ambiguity: Reading (for) and Writing about Rape.” French Cultural  Studies 27.2 (2016): 113-134.  

“Permutations of Genre, Gender and Guilt: Rape Narratives in the Canards Sanglants of Nineteenth-Century France.” Genre(s)/Gender. Eds. Kornelia Slavova and Isabelle Boof-Vermesse. Sofia: St. Kliment Ohridski UP,  2010.  299-317.

“The Cleansing of Les Halles: Discourses of Health and Disease in Zola’s Le Ventre de Paris.” Romance Quarterly 51.3 (2004): 226-240.

“The Toleration and Erotization of Rape: Interpreting Charles Perrault’s ’Le Petit Chaperon Rouge’ within Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century French Jurisprudence.” Women Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 32.3 (2003):  325-52.

  • Department of Education Title VI Grant, spring 2001, $390,000. Co-Writer with Dr. Richard Shryock. Co-PI with Drs. Richard Shryock and Robert Sumichrast

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