Ronna C. Johnson is a Professor of

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. Johnson is an established authority on the

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. She has worked as a fiction editor for ''ASPECT'' magazine, Zephyr Press, and ''Dark Horse'' magazine. She is also the co-editor of the ''Journal of Beat Studies'' published by

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, a founding board member of the Beat Studies Association, and the co-editor of the Beat Studies book series published by

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Education

Johnson received her B.A. from

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, graduating

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. She then went on to receive her

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from the

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. She received her Ph.D. from

, and in 1984 was nominated for the

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Distinguished Dissertation Award for her

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, ''Jack Kerouac's Art: The Artist as Literary Hero in The Duluoz Legend.''

Awards and Grants

* Tufts Faculty Fellowship, Summer Award (1990) * Tufts Deans and American Studies Department: Travel-research grant, Sinte Gleska College, Rosebud Sioux Reservation, Rosebud, SD (1989) * Tufts Research Award for Lecturers (1985, 1986)

Selected bibliography

Books

* ''Breaking the Rule of Cool: Interviewing and Reading Beat Women Writers,'' with Nancy M. Grace. University Press of Mississippi, 2004. * ''Girls Who Wore Black: Women Writing the Beat Generation,'' with Nancy M. Grace. New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2002.

Articles

* “Three Generations of Beat Poetics.” Invited essay. ''The Cambridge Companion to American Poetry Post-1945''. Edited by Jennifer Ashton. London: Cambridge UP. Forthcoming 2012. * “Beat Transnationalism Under Gender: Brenda Frazer’s Troia: Mexican Memoirs.” ''The Transnational Beat Generation''. Edited by Nancy Grace and Jennie Skerl. NY: Palgrave. January 2012. * “Lenore Kandel’s The Love Book: Psychedelic Poetics, Cosmic Erotica, and Sexual Politics in the Midsixties Counterculture.” ''Reconstructing the Beats''. Edited by Jennie Skerl. Palgrave/St. Martin's Press, 2004. 89-104. * “Doctor Sax: The Origins of Vision in The Duluoz Legend.” Rpt. in ''The Beat Generation'', edited by Allison Marion. Vol 3. Detroit, MI: The Gale Group, 2003. 117-123. * “‘And Then She Went’: Beat Departures and Feminine Transgressions in Joyce Johnson's Come and Join the Dance. In ''Girls Who Wore Black: Women Writing the Beat Generation''. Edited by Ronna C. Johnson and Nancy M. Grace. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 2002. 69-95. Rpt. in ''The Beat Generation'', edited by Allison Marion. Vol. 3. Detroit, MI: The Gale Group, 2003. 11-23. * "'You're Putting Me On': Jack Kerouac and the Postmodern Emergence," College Literature Special Issue 27, 1, ''Teaching Beat Literature''. Edited by Jennie Skerl, Winter 2000. 22-38. Rpt. in ''The Beat Generation: Critical Essays''. Edited by Kostas Myrsiades. Lang, 2002. * "Said But Not Spoken: Elision and the Representation of Rape, Race and Gender in Harriet E. Wilson's Our Nig" in ''Speaking the Other Self: American Women Writers'', edited by Jeanne Campbell Reesman, U Georgia P, 1997. 96-116. * "John Okada's No-No Boy: Visions of Japanese Ethnic Identity and Revisions of 'Classic American' Literature." ''A Gathering of Voices on the Asian American Experience''. Edited by Annette White- Parks et al. Ft. Atkinson, WI: Highsmith, 1994. 215-223. * "An Introduction to Jack Kerouac's Art," ''Catching Up With Kerouac: The Literary Denim: A Journal of Beat Literature'', 2, 1984, 22-30. * "Doctor Sax: Origins of Vision in Kerouac's Duluoz Legend," ''The Review of Contemporary Fiction'', 3, 2 (Summer 1983), 18-25.

References

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