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Writing and Rhetoric
319 Roosevelt Hall
90 Lower College Road
Kingston, RI 02881
Phone: 401.874.5932
Fax: 401.874.2628
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Faculty and Staff
Heather Johnson, Ph.D.
Lecturer
Office: Roosevelt 325Office Hours: W: 12:00 - 1:00 and by appointment
Phone: (401) 874-7417
E-mail: heather_johnson@mail.uri.edu
Degrees:University of California, Berkeley; Trinity College, Dublin (Ireland); University of Edinburgh (Scotland)
Teaching Interests:
First-year composition; argument; writing culture; feminist studies.
Courses Recently Taught: WRT 104, WRT 105, WRT 201
Recent Publications:
- "Metafiction, Myth and Magical Realism", chapter in Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus, ed. Helen Stoddart (Routledge, 2007).
- “Dangerous Skin: Bees and Female Figuration in Plath and Maher” in Insect Poetics, ed. Eric C. Brown (University of Minnesota Press, 2006).
- “'A hoary gleam': Jane Eyre and William Gaddis' American Gothic” in Litteraria Pragensia (journal of Charles University's English and American Studies Department), Feb. 2005.
- “Supporting economically disadvantaged students in Ireland: the Oscail experience”, with D. Bancroft in Access and Equity : Challenges for Open and Distance Learning eds. H.P. Dikshit, S. Garg, S. Panda and Vijayshri (Kogan Page India, 2002).
- “Textualizing the Double-Gendered Body: Forms of the Grotesque in The Passion of New Eve” in Angela Carter ed Angela Easton (Macmillan, 2000); and The Review of Contemporary Fiction, 14: 3 (Fall 1994).
