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 nineteenth-century British literature, women writers, British modernism, poetry, and narrative ethics. Her publications include "Aurora Leigh's Radical Youth: Derridean Parergon and the Narrative Frame in 'A Vision of Poets'" in Victorian Poetry (Winter 2006), and she has recently completed an article on the representation of the Whore of Babylon in Christina Rossetti's religious poetry.