Sharon P. Johnson

• 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