Dr. Laurie Johnson

Biography

Laurie Johnson works on eighteenth- to twenty-first-century intellectual history, literature, psychology, philosophy, and visual studies, with an emphasis on the Romanticism afterlife. She has published four books and numerous articles and essays. Her work has been supported by grants from the Fulbright and Humboldt foundations, and the German Academic Exchange Service. Johnson has received teaching awards and was named a Helen Corley Petit Scholar at the University of Illinois for her exceptional research and teaching while on the tenure track. She has taught and researched at public and private universities, liberal arts colleges, and community colleges, as well as studied at institutions overseas including the Universities of Cologne, Tübingen, Regensburg, and the German Film Archive in Berlin. Johnson has also coached faculty nationally through the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity's Faculty Success Program and has served as a Campus Workshop Facilitator. Additionally, she was a Visiting Professor at the University of Ghent.

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