Sharon P. Johnson

DIRECTORY INFORMATION
317 MAJOR WILLIAMS HALL
(540) 231-9859
e-mail address: spjohnso@vt.edu

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

  • Associate Professor of French
  • At VPI&SU since 1998
  • Extracurricular activities, la Table Française, Le Cercle francophone

  • Diggs Teaching Scholar Award, spring 2004
  • Certificate of Teaching Excellence, spring 2002

    EDUCATION
    Ph.D. in French, University of Wisconsin at Madison (1996)

    TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
    Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature; Gender Studies, Cultural Studies; Literary, legal and medical discourses, Feminist Critical Theory; Cross-cultural pedagogy, French for Business, Teaching with technology

    COURSES TAUGHT AT VT
    Advanced Conversation, Composition and Grammar (French 3105 and 3106)
    Oral Proficiency (French 3125 and 3126)
    Advanced Business French (French 3164, formally 3104)
    Introduction to Literary Analysis (French 3304)
    Survey of French Literature, Middle Ages-17c (French 3305)
    Advanced Grammar and Stylistics (French 4154)
    4164 French for Business Topics Course : "Cross-cultural Harmony and Discord: Merging Business Practices in France and Canada"
    4314 Topics in French Literature "Feminine/Masculine: Constructions & Subversions of Gender"
    4314 Topics in French Literature : "Representations of Paris: Nineteenth Century Texts and Contexts

    Cross-cultural IMRAC Project with the Sorbonne (3105 and 3106)
    Cross-cultural Advertising project with the Institut National des Télécommunications (3164)

    PUBLICATIONS

    Boundaries of Acceptability: Flaubert, Maupassant, Cézanne, and Cassatt. New York: Peter Lang, 2000.

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

    "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.

    "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.

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

    Articles forthcoming:

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

    "Discursive and Rhetorical Shifts: Rape Narratives in Fiction, Law, and the Penny Presses (Canards) of 17th- and 18th-Century France." Proceedings of the International Association for the History of Crime and Criminal Justice, June 6-7, 2003: Colloquium on Gender and Crime in Historical Perspective. Ed. Mary Gibson.

    CONFERENCE PAPERS

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

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

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

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

  • "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

  • "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.

    National

  • "Quebec: a Pedagogical Venture." Roundtable Chair and participant: 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

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

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

  • "Zola and les Halles: Gender, Order and Disorder," 27th Annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, U 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, U 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 U, Milwaukee, March 2001.

  • "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 U, 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, U 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, U of Cincinnati, May 1996

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

  • "Doors as Figures of Obsession and Pathways to Knowledge and Memory in Ponge, Sarraute and Salomon," Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, U of Kentucky, Lexington April 1995

    Regional

  • "Mary Cassatt: Challenging Representations of Woman, Maternity, and Modernity" Invited Speaker, Hollins U, Roanoke, April 2000

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

    VT Campus

  • "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