People
Faculty
Kelli Lyon Johnson
Titles
- Assistant Professor
Education
- Ph.D., English, Northern Illinois University, 2003
- M.A., French, Northern Illinois University, 1996
- B.A., French, University of Iowa, 1991
Teaching Interests
- U.S. ethnic literature
- Women’s literature
- Writing
Research Interests
- Women’s writing
- U.S. Latino/a literature
- Native American literature, particularly in the areas of memory, space, national identity, place, and gender.
Selected Publications
- Julia Alvarez: Writing a New Place on the Map. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005.
- “Writing Deeper Maps: Mapmaking, Local Indigenous Knowledges, and Literary Nationalism in Native Women’s Writing.” Studies in American Indian Literatures 19.4 (Winter 2007), forthcoming.
- “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 Torres-Padilla and Carmen H. Rivera. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007.
- “‘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 3.1 (Fall 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 27.2 (Spring 2004).
Web Publications
- “Cristina García.”
Voices from the Gaps: Women Writers of Color.
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/ - “Achy Obejas.”
Voices from the Gaps: Women Writers of Color.
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/
Work in Progress
Dr. Johnson is currently co-editing a volume celebrating Spiderwoman Theatre and Native theater. She is also working on several essays on literature and human rights and conducting research on the value of narratives in human rights education. Her current book-length project focuses on collective memory and human rights.