Leigh Johnson

Associate Professor

Leigh Johnson
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Room 138, Jones Hall (JH)
Office Hours

Tuesday/Thursday 10-11:15 am; 1-2:00 pm

Departments / Programs

Degree Information

  • PHD, University of New Mexico (2011)
  • MA, Western Kentucky University (2005)
  • BA, Lewis & Clark College (2001)

Areas of Expertise

Writing Studies; Composition; Latinx Literature

Publications

Selected Publications

“How Latina Theatre Found a Voice.” In Routledge Companion to Latinx Life Writing, edited by Maria Villaseñor and Christine Fernandez. Taylor & Francis, 2024. 

  “A Chicana Pedagogy for Digital Pen Pals.” Diana Noreen Rivera and Leigh Johnson. In Scholars in Covid Times, edited by Melissa Castillo Planas and Debra A. Castillo, Cornell University Press, 2023. pp. 93-118.  

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Selected Publications

“How Latina Theatre Found a Voice.” In Routledge Companion to Latinx Life Writing, edited by Maria Villaseñor and Christine Fernandez. Taylor & Francis, 2024. 

  “A Chicana Pedagogy for Digital Pen Pals.” Diana Noreen Rivera and Leigh Johnson. In Scholars in Covid Times, edited by Melissa Castillo Planas and Debra A. Castillo, Cornell University Press, 2023. pp. 93-118.  

“Transnational Feminisms and Latina Interpretation of the Sanctuary Movement.” Label Me Latina/o. vol. 13, no. 1. Spring 2023.  

“Latinx/Confederate: Loreta Janeta Valezquez as a Cross-Dressing Soldier, 1861.” Crossings in Nineteenth-Century American Culture. Edited by Edward Sugden. Edinburgh University Press. 2022. 59-70.  

“Chicana Visions: Ana Castillo and Cherríe Moraga’s Friendship, Falling Out, and Forgiveness.” Navigating Women’s Friendships in American Literature. Edited by Kelly Reames and Kristi Branham. Palgrave. 2022.  

“Teaching Ana Castillo: Transnational Feminist Theory, Transvisionaria Poetix, and Practical Tips for the Classroom.” New Transnational Latinx Perspectives on Ana Castillo. Edited by Bernadine Hernández and Karen Roybal. University of Pittsburg Press. 2021. 246-264.  

“Women’s Work: A Revision of Gender in Américo Paredes, José Antonio Villarreal, and Mario Suárez’s Fiction.” Societal Constructions of Masculinity in Chicanx and Mexican Literature: From Machismo to Feminist Masculinity. Edited by Kathryn Quinn-Sanchez and Bryan Pearce-Gonzales. Vernon Press. 2021. 1-20.  

“Feminist Consciousness and Community Activism in Novels by Demetria Martínez and Ana Castillo.” MLA Approaches to Teaching 20th Century Chicana and Mexicana Writers. Edited by Elizabeth Martínez. Modern Language Association of America. 2020. 200-207.  

“Imagined Alternatives to Conquest in Aurora Lucero-White Lea’s ‘Kearny Takes Las Vegas.’” Writing / Righting History: 25 Years of Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage. Editors Clara Lomas and Antonia Castañeda. Houston: Arte Público Press, 2019. 279-294.  

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In the Media

“The Power of Pen Pals” July 29, 2020: https://www.utrgv.edu/newsroom/2020/07/29-the-power-of-pen-pals.htm

TV News: https://www.localdvm.com/news/virginia/how-two-classrooms-1700-miles-apart-came-together-for-a-semester/

Courses

PRST 3995

PRST 4995