"Fact or Fiction: How Rape Makes the News in the Canard Sanglants of Nineteenth-Century France."

Narrating and Interpreting Rape: Suffering, Silenced Bodies in Law, Medicine and the Popular Press (canards sanglants) in Nineteenth-Century France.. Book-length study on the representations of rape in legal, medical and journalistic discourses of nineteenth-century France.

Book-length study on the literary, medical and legal discourses of working-class women and the city of Paris during the second half of nineteenth-century France.

Book
Boundaries of Acceptability: Flaubert, Maupassant, Cézanne, and Cassatt. New York: Peter Lang, 2000. Review by Kate Cunningham-Hendrix

Articles

Invited contribution: "Représentations du viol et construits essentialistes du genre dans les canards sanglants du XIXe siècle." Masculin/Feminin : Le Genre et la presse au XIXe siècle. Vol. 2. Eds. Christine Planté and Marie-Eve Thérenty. Lyon: PUL, 2012. Forthcoming.

"Permutations of Genre, Gender and Guilt: Rape Narratives in the Canards Sanglants of Nineteenth-Century France." Proceedings of the Genre/Genre(s) Gender/Genre Campus Européen d'Eté, June 20-27, 2009: Plenary session. Lille, Université de Lille 3. Eds. Kornelia Slavova and Isabelle Boof-Vermesse. Sofia: St. Kliment Ohridski UP, 2010. 299-317. [Print].

Johnson, Sharon and Avril Andrews. "ADVERTAINMENT: Intercultural Collaborative Project in Advertising," Les Cahiers de d'APLIUT 24.2 (2005): 86-98.

"The Cleansing of Les Halles: Discourses of Health and Disease in Zola's Le Ventre de Paris." Romance Quarterly 3 (2004): 226-40.

"Etats-Unis: Evolution du FOS." Trans. "United States: Evolution of French for Special Purposes." Le Français dans le monde: Revue de la Fédération Internationale des Professeurs de Français 333 (2004): 32-33.

"Intercultural Competency and Business." International Business and Culture. Blacksburg: Pamplin College of Business, 2004. 7.

"The Toleration and Erotization of Rape: Interpreting Charles Perrault's 'Le Petit Chaperon rouge' within Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-century French Jurisprudence." Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 32.3 (2003): 325-352.

Johnson, Sharon P. and Kathryn English. "Images, Myths, Realities Across Cultures." The French Review 76.3 (2003): 492-506.

"Les Halles in Zola's Le Ventre de Paris: Gender, Order and Disorder." Excavatio 17.1-2 (2002): 33-54.

"Reading (for) Trauma: Legal, Medical and Journalistic Scotomas" for Panel OYEZ! OYEZ! Voices from the Silence: Law's Refusal to Speak and Literary Proxy. 37th Annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium. Pennsylvania University, Philadelphia, Oct. 2011.

Panelist, Organizer and Chair: "Coded Texts, Dead Bodies, and the Unsayable: How Rape Makes News in the Canards Sanglants of Nineteenth-Century France." Panel: "Breaking the Silence: Narrating Silences." International Conference on Narrative. Washington University in Saint Louis, MS. April 2011.

"Narrating the Lives and Demise of Victims and Perpetrators of Rape: Rhetorical Reversals of Guilt in Nineteenth-Century Canards sanglants." Panel: "Storytelling and Memory: Ventriloquized Narratives and the Art of Legal Storytelling." Special Session for the 2011 Presidential Theme "Narrating Lives" Modern Language Association L.A., CA, January 2011.

"Confounding the Literal (fact) and Literary (fiction) or How a Private Crime is Made Public: Panel: "Advanced Search": The Lure and Lore of the Archive. Nineteenth-Century French Studies. Yale University, New Haven, CT, October, 2010.

"Speaking for the Dead or Victimized Bodies of Rape: The Role of the Médecins légistes in Nineteenth-Century fin-de-siècle French Law, Medicine and Criminology. "Gender, Bodies and Technology", STS/Women's and Gender Studies at Virginia Tech, Hotel Roanoke, VA, April 2010.

"Cadavers and a Cast of Characters Tell the Tale of Rape in the Canards Sanglants of Fin-de-Siècle France." Romance Studies Colloquium on "Storytelling", Montclair University, Oct. 2009.

Invited plenary panelist: "Permutations of Genre, Gender and Guilt: Rape Narratives in the Canards Sanglants of Nineteenth-Century France" Genre/Genre(s)-Gender/Genre, Campus Européen d'Eté. Université de Lille 3, June 2009.

Invited scholar: "Representations of Gender and Rape in the Canards Sanglants Nineteenth-Century France. "Masculin/Feminin et presse au XIXe siècle." Invited speaker at Université de Lyon "seminaire" within the auspices of Littérature, Idéologies, Représentations in 18th-19th-century literature (LIRE), October 2008.

Organizer and Chair with Carol Rifelj (Middlebury College): for the Pedagogical Roundtable Panel 1: "Creating Institutional Identities for Literary and Cultural Studies (Round 2)" at the 34th Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Vanderbilt University, October 2008

Organizer and Chair with Carol Rifelj (Middlebury College): Pedagogical Roundtable Panel 2 : "Keep Them in the Classroom: Innovative Pedagogies for Literary and Cultural Texts." at the 34th Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Vanderbilt University, October 2008

Panelist, Organizer and Chair with Carol Rifelj (Middlebury College): "The MLA Report and the Undergraduate Curriculum: Strategies to Increase the Intellectual Presence (i.e. funding of) French and Francophone Literary Studies at our Universities." for the Pedagogical Roundtable, Creating Institutional Identities for Literary and Cultural Studies at the 33rd Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, University of Alabama, Mobile, Alabama. Oct. 2007

Panelist, Organizer and Chair for Rountable: "Quebec: a Pedagogical Venture." The Politics, Poetics and Pedagogy of Francophone Texts in North America. 30th Annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Washington University in Saint Louis, Saint-Louis, Oct. 2004

Johnson, Sharon and Avril Andrews. "ADVERTAINMENT: Collaborative Lessons in Advertising," XXVIème Congrès de l'APLIUT, Aix-en Provence, June 2004

Invited Roundtable Participant: "How Linguistic and Cultural Discord Engenders Cross-cultural Understanding," Using Technology to Foster International Exchange, 13th Annual AIZEN International Conference on Emile Zola and Naturalism, Rio de Janeiro, May 2004

Invited roundtable participant via video-conference) and Avril Andrews: "Cours collaboratifs en publicité." L'ouverture à l'international. Colloque international e-prep 2004: Les Technologies de l'information, Institut National des Télécommunications, Evry, Paris May 2004.

Invited panelist: "How to Implement a Language Across the Curriculum Program Successfully," Title VI Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language Program Annual Directors' Meeting, Montreal, March 2004

Invited Roundtable Participant: "Blending Curricula: A Case Study at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University" Canon Matters: The (De)Construction of a Modern French Studies Curriculum, 29th Annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, University of Arizona, Tucson, Oct. 2003

"The Cleansing of Les Halles: Discourses of Health and Disease in Zola's Le Ventre de Paris," 29th Annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, University of Arizona, Tucson, Oct. 2003

"Discursive and Rhetorical Shifts: Rape Narratives in Fiction, Law, and the Canards," International Association for the History of Crime and Criminal Justice, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, June 2003

"Creating Cross-cultural Collaborative Student Projects: The Challenges and Rewards," Center for International Business Education and Research Conference (CIBER), University of North Carolina and Duke University, Chapel Hill, March 2002

"Zola and les Halles: Gender, Order and Disorder," 27th Annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, University of Wisconsin, Madison , October 2001

"Interpreting Charles Perrault's 'Le Petit Chaperon rouge' ('Little Red Riding Hood') within 17- and 18th century French Jurisprudence: Tolerating Rape and the Troubling language of Love, " The Conference on Law, Culture and the Humanities, University of Texas, Austin, March 2001. Presented an extended version of this paper at The Women's Studies Conference, Women and the Law: Legal Systems/Legal Fictions, Marquette University, Milwaukee, March 2001.

"A Narrative of Uncertainty: Maupassant's 'Une Partie de campagne,'" 25th Annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, London, Canada, Oct. 1999

"Interculturalité: conceptualisations et défis, L'exemple des échanges par internet entre INT et VPI&SU." Trans.: "Cross-cultural Teaching: Conceptualizations and Challenges, An example of internet exchanges between the Institut National des Télécommunications (INT) and Virginia Tech," 27eme Congrès de l'Union des Professeurs de Langues Etrangères des Grandes Ecoles, Langues, Transversalité, Interculturalité, L'Institut National des Télélcommunications, Evry, France, May 1999.

"Seductions & Struggles: Blurring the Boundaries between Rape and Rapture in Maupassant and Cézanne," Session on Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies. Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association, San Jose State University, San Jose, Nov. 1997

"The Trope of Contamination in Maupassant's 'Une Partie de campagne:' S(p)oiling Nature and Women," 17th Annual Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Cincinnati, May 1997

"Reading Emma and Madame Bovary: A Rhetoric of Negation of Flaubertian Feminine Spaces," 16th Annual Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Cincinnati, May 1996

"Intermediary Spaces: Modernity, The Female Subject, The Female Gaze," 21st Annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, University of Delaware, Delaware, Oct. 1995

Invited panelist: "Doors as Figures of Obsession and Pathways to Knowledge and Memory in Ponge, Sarraute and Salomon," Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington April 1995

"Mary Cassatt: Challenging Representations of Woman, Maternity and Modernity," Women's History Month, Blacksburg, March 2002

"A Highly Unstable Public/Private Divide," Women's History Month, Blacksburg, April 1999

"Internationalizing the Curriculum: Strategies to Enhance Cross-cultural Communication Using the Internet," Instructional Technologies Conference, The New Millennium, Blacksburg, March 1999

"Paris: A City of Transformations and Redefinitions," Invited speaker, Hollins U, Roanoke, April 1997