People
Faculty
Contact Information
278 Bachelor Hall
Oxford Campus
513 529 7520
johnso33@muohio.edu
Katie Johnson
Titles
- Associate Professor
Education
- Ph.D. in Drama History, Theory, and Criticism, University of Washington 1996
- M.A. in German Languages and Literatures, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 1990
- B.A. in German and Peace Studies, St. Olaf College 1985
Teaching Interests
- American drama
- Gender studies
- Film theory
- Performance studies and theory
Research Interests
- I’m working currently to finalize copyediting on my book with Cambridge University Press. Will continue work on new project (see below) this summer.
Selected Publications
- Sisters in Sin: the Image of the Prostitute on the New York Stage. Forthcoming by Cambridge University Press, American Drama Series.
- “Anna Christie: the Repentant Courtesan, Made Respectable.” Eugene O’Neill Review 26 (June 2004): 87-104.
- “Rachel Crothers’ Ourselves: Feminist Dramaturgy in the Brothel Drama.” Journal of American Drama & Theatre 15.3 (Fall 2003): 101-121.
- “Damaged Goods: Sex Hysteria and the Prostitute Fatale.” Theatre Survey 44 (May 2003): 43-67.
- “Zaza: That Obtruding Harlot of the Stage.” Theatre Journal 54 (May 2002): 223-43. Winner of the Gerald Kahan Award for Best Essay in North America by a Younger Scholar in Theatre Studies.
- “Command Performances: Staging Native Americans at Tillicum Village.” Co-written with Tamara Underiner. Selling the Indian: Commercialism and the Appropriation of American Indian Cultures, ed. Carter Jones Meyer and Diana Royer. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2001.
- “Televising the Panopticon: The Myth of ‘Reality-Based’ TV.” American Drama 8.2 (1999): 1-26. Chosen as one of the best 25 essays in ten years by the editors of American Drama.
- “Censoring Sapho: Regulating the Fallen Woman and the Prostitute on the New York Stage.” ATQ: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture 10.3 (1996): 167-86.
- “Salvation Nell.” Encyclopedia of Modern Drama. Ed. Gabrielle H. Cody and Evert Sprinchorn. New York: Grolier. Forthcoming in 2005.
- “The Easiest Way.” Encyclopedia of Modern Drama. Ed. Gabrielle H. Cody and Evert Sprinchorn. New York: Grolier. Forthcoming in 2005.
- “American Drama.” Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History. Vol. 3. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2001; 577-87.
Work in Progress
The Forgotten Brothel Play: A Critical Edition of American Progressive Era Theatre, 1900-1917. Manuscript length. This project is a critical anthology of the long forgotten, but exceptionally popular, genre of the brothel play in early twentieth-century American theatre. It brings to print ten previously unpublished plays about prostitution.
“Just Another Hooker With a Heart of Gold? The Repentant Courtesan in Moulin Rouge.” Critical essay that examines two film versions of Moulin Rouge, comparing them to the story of Camille.
Feminist Community: Communing Women. Digital film about the intersections between feminism, race, and creativity. Collaborating with Stefanie Dunning.