Alyssa Johnson
Assistant Professor
Norris Hall
P843-863-7594 / Eajohnson@csuniv.edu
CREDENTIALS
PhD, English, Texas Christian University
MA, English, Abilene Christian University
BA, English, Abilene Christian University
Dr. Alyssa Q. Johnson is an Assistant Professor of English at Charleston Southern University. She completed her Ph.D. in English at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. Her dissertation discussed Gothicized depictions of Protestant fanatics in nineteenth-century British fiction. Her research interests lie at the intersection of Christianity and the Gothic in long-nineteenth-century British fiction, often coalescing around the vampire figure or representations of failed religion.
Your Purpose. Our Mission.
I believe relationships are at the heart of pedagogical excellence. Faith-based higher education gives faculty the chance to mentor students through some of the trickier issues in their own disciplines. As we study literature together, we can develop thoughtful methodologies to answer important questions and determine the way to live and treat others.
Alyssa Johnson
- RECOGNITION & HONORS
University STARS Fellowship, TCU, 2018-2021
Green Fellowship, TCU, 2018-2019
Outstanding Thesis Award, ACU, May 2018
University Scholar, ACU, 2016
- PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS
Publications:
“Nineteenth-Century Jewish British Literature”
“The Nineteenth-Century Religious Other,” Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom. First Published 15 March 2023.“Performing and Decorating the Body in Tender Is the Night”
Beyond the Margins, vol. 1, no. 1, May 2020.“Communion and Colonialism in Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic” (Forthcoming)
Encyclopedia Articles:
“Charlotte Dacre”
The Victorian Jewish Writers Project. Ed. Lindsay Katzir. First published 20 July 2023.“The Women of Israel”
The Literary Encyclopedia, Volume 1.2.1.07: English Writing and Culture of the Victorian Period, 1837-1901. Ed. Grace Moore. First published 15 June 2021.“The Nineteenth-Century Merchant of Venice” (Forthcoming).
Reviews:
“Victorian Romance and Religion Collide” (Review of Timothy L. Caren’s Strange Gods: Love and Idolatry in the Victorian Novel)
Journal of Victorian Culture, vol. 28, no. 1, January 2023. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/jvcult/vcac073.Review of Alison Milbank’s God and the Gothic: Religion, Romance, and Reality in the English Literary Tradition
Christianity and Literature, vol. 70, no. 1, March 2021, pp. 89-93.Christian Op-Eds:
“Peter, Paul, and PhDs: Reframing Educational Diversity as an Asset”
Wineskins, Sept. 16, 2022. Co-written with Dr. Shawn D. Johnson.“Keeping Ourselves–And Young People–Near the Cross”
Mosaic, July 11, 2018.“No Room for Snobbery”
Mosaic, May 26, 2017.
- MEMBERSHIPS & AFFILIATIONS
North American Victorian Studies Association