Professor Johnson began teaching at Valparaiso University in 2006 as a Lilly Post-Doctoral Fellow in Humanities and the Arts.

She appreciates Valparaiso students' eagerness to learn and to engage with texts and each other. She sees the vitality of this community reflected in individuals every day in the classroom.

Professor Johnson understands reading, writing, and teaching as ethical acts, and she works to convey to her students a similar understanding. She invites discussion in every class, modeling an exchange between reader and text and between teacher and student that recognizes the ability of each to craft meaning.

Her teaching interests include Victorian literature and culture, women writers, Virginia Woolf, narrative ethics, and the gothic novel. Her publications include "Aurora Leigh's Radical Youth: Derridean Parergon and the Narrative Frame in 'A Vision of Poets'" in Victorian Poetry (Winter 2006). She is currently working on a book project that broadens this topic to include other Victorian women writers and their use of apocalypse in both poetry and prose.

Outside the classroom, she finds adventure each day with her husband and three children.

She received her Ph.D. from the University of Washington.