Stephanie Johnson
Dean, College of Liberal Studies
- Professional
- Biography
Additional Titles/Roles
- Professor of English
Education
- Ph.D., English, University of Washington, 2005
- M.A., English, University of Minnesota, 1991
- B.A., English and Religion, St. Olaf College, 1989
Areas of Emphasis or Expertise
- Nineteenth-century British literature
- Poetry
- Narrative Ethics
Selected Publications
- "Christina Rossetti’s Echoes: Eros and the Victorian Double Poem" in "Love Among the Poets: The Victorian Poets of Intimacy" (Ohio University Press 2024)
- "Poetry's Lyric Call" in "Cultivating Vocation in Literary Studies" (Edinburgh University Press, 2022)
- "Cultivating Vocation in Literary Studies", co-editor with Erin VanLaningham (Edinburgh University Press 2022)
- "'A Word of Song': Reverberations of the Psalms in Christina Rossetti's Roundels," - Literature and Theology (June 2022)
- "Christina Rossetti's Ghosts, Soul-Sleep, and Victorian Death Culture," - Victorian Literature and Culture (June 2018)
- "'Home one and all': Redeeming the Whore of Babylon in Christina Rossetti's Religious Poetry," Victorian Poetry (Spring 2011)
- "Aurora Leigh's Radical Youth: Derridean Perergon and the Narrative Frame in 'A Vision of Poets,'" Victorian Poetry (Winter 2006)
Biography
Dr. Stephanie Johnson is Dean of the College of Liberal Studies at Pacific Lutheran University (PLU) and Professor of English.
Prior to beginning as dean in 2024, Dr. Johnson served as Professor of English, Chair of the Department of English and Communication, and Director of the Honors Program at The College of St. Scholastica. Previously, she taught as a visiting professor at University of Puget Sound and Valparaiso University, where she also held a Lilly Postdoctoral Fellowship.
Dr. Johnson earned her Ph.D. in English from the University of Washington in 2005 with a dissertation titled The Ethics of Epiphany in Wordsworth, Tennyson, Barret Browning, and Woolf. She graduated with an M.S. in English from the University of Minnesota in 1009 and a B.A in English and Religion from St. Olaf College in 1989.
Her areas of teaching expertise include the British long nineteenth century; poetry; women’s gender, and sexuality studies; narrative ethics; and writing. Her journal articles and book chapters primarily focus on Victorian women’s devotional poetry and on the lyric as form. She is also the co-editor of Cultivating Vocation in Literary Studies (Edinburgh 2022), a collection of essays that addresses the vital role that literary studies can and should play in conversations with undergraduates about purposeful living and the multiple responsibilities of civic life.