Johnson, Barbara
JOHNSON, Barbara
JOHNSON, Barbara. American, b. 1947. Genres: Literary criticism and history. Career: Professor and author. Harvard University, professor in departments of English and Comparative Literature, chair of women's studies program, Frederic Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society. Publications: Defigurations du langage poetique: La seconde revolution baudelairienne, 1979; The Critical Difference: Essays in the Contemporary Rhetoric of Reading, 1981; (ed.) The Pedagogical Imperative: Teaching as a Literary Genre, 1982; A World of Difference, 1987; (ed. with J. Arac) Consequences of Theory, 1991; (ed.) Freedom and Interpretation: The Oxford Amnesty Lectures, 1992; The Wake of Deconstruction, 1994; The Feminist Difference: Literature, Psychoanalysis, Race, and Gender, 1998. Address: Boylston Hall, Ground Floor, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A. Online address: [email protected]