Claudia L. Johnson is the Murray Professor of English Literature at

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; she is also currently chairperson of the English department. Johnson received her PhD from

; she specializes in

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and 18th century British literature, with an especial focus on the novel. She is also interested in

feminist theory Feminist theory is the extension of feminism into theoretical, fictional, or philosophical discourse. It aims to understand the nature of gender inequality. It examines women's and men's social roles, experiences, interests, chores, and femin ...

and

gender studies Gender studies is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to analysing gender identity and gendered representation. Gender studies originated in the field of women's studies, concerning women, feminism, gender, and politics. The field ...

. Johnson is renowned for her books on Jane Austen and

Mary Wollstonecraft Mary Wollstonecraft (, ; 27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797) was a British writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights. Until the late 20th century, Wollstonecraft's life, which encompassed several unconventional personal relationsh ...

Scholarship

Johnson's major books include ''Jane Austen: Women, Politics, and the Novel'' (Chicago, 1988) and ''Equivocal Beings: Politics, Gender and Sentimentality in the 1790s'' (Chicago, 1995). She also edited ''The Cambridge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft'' (Cambridge, 2002) as well as editions of Jane Austen's ''

Mansfield Park ''Mansfield Park'' is the third published novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1814 by Thomas Egerton. A second edition was published in 1816 by John Murray, still within Austen's lifetime. The novel did not receive any public reviews unt ...

'' (Norton, 1998), ''

Sense and Sensibility ''Sense and Sensibility'' is a novel by Jane Austen, published in 1811. It was published anonymously; ''By A Lady'' appears on the title page where the author's name might have been. It tells the story of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor (age 19) a ...

'' (Norton, 2002), and ''

Northanger Abbey ''Northanger Abbey'' () is a coming-of-age novel and a satire of Gothic novels written by Jane Austen. Austen was also influenced by Charlotte Lennox's '' The Female Quixote'' (1752). ''Northanger Abbey'' was completed in 1803, the first of ...

'' (Oxford, 2003). Nina Auerbach has called ''Equivocal Beings'' the "definitive account of Wollstonecraft, nnRadcliffe, and annyBurney . . . It should become one of the classic feminist accounts, not just of the late eighteenth century, but of all women writers in their time" and Margaret Anne Doody writes that ''Jane Austen'' is "brilliant, witty and well-informed book . . . the best single book on Austen for a decade or more—and one of the best ever."''Jane Austen'' book cover
books.google.com. "She is now putting the finishing touches on a book about author-love called ''Jane Austen’s Cults and Cultures'', which traces permutations of “Jane mania” from 1817 to the present, and also working on another called ''Raising the Novel'', which explores modern efforts to create a novelistic canon by elevating novels to keystones of high culture."Claudia L. Johnson
www.princeton.edu. Retrieved on 8 July 2007.

Awards

She has been awarded Guggenheim Fellowships and grants by the

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