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

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...

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

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; she specializes in

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and

18th century The 18th century lasted from January 1, 1701 ( MDCCI) to December 31, 1800 ( MDCCC). During the 18th century, elements of Enlightenment thinking culminated in the American, French, and Haitian Revolutions. During the century, slave trad ...

British literature British literature is literature from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islands. This article covers British literature in the English language. Anglo-Saxon (Old English) literature is inc ...

, 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 feminist ...

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 Jane Austen (; 16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique, and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Austen's plots of ...

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 Coming of age is a young person's transition from being a child to being an adult. The specific age at which this transition takes place varies between societies, as does the nature of the ...

'' (Oxford, 2003).

Nina Auerbach Nina Auerbach (May 24, 1943 in New York City – February 4, 2017) was the John Welsh Centennial Professor of English Emerita at the University of Pennsylvania. Her special area of concentration was nineteenth-century England. She published, lecture ...

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 Margaret Anne Doody (born September 21, 1939) is a Canadian author of historical detective fiction and feminist literary critic. She is professor of literature at the University of Notre Dame, helped found the PhD in Literature Program at Notre Da ...

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 Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

s and grants by the

National Endowment for the Humanities The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is an independent federal agency of the U.S. government, established by thNational Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965(), dedicated to supporting research, education, preserv ...

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