Rate My Professor Claudia Johnson

Johnson's influential publications include Jane Austen: Women, Politics, and the Novel (University of Chicago Press, 1988), Equivocal Beings: Politics, Gender, and Sensibility in the 1790s—Wollstonecraft, Radcliffe, Burney, Austen (University of Chicago Press, 1995), and Jane Austen's Cults and Cultures (University of Chicago Press, 2012). She has edited key editions such as Pride and Prejudice: A Longman Cultural Edition with Susan J. Wolfson (Pearson, 2002), The Blackwell Companion to Jane Austen with Clara Tuite (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), and Jane Austen's The Beautifull Cassandra: A Novel in Twelve Chapters (Princeton University Press, 2018). Her scholarship examines topics like Jane Austen's reception, Mary Wollstonecraft, romantic gardens, and the English novel tradition. Johnson has received the 2013 Christian Gauss Award for Jane Austen's Cults and Cultures, the 2015 Howard T. Behrman Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities shared with Brent Shaw, and support from major fellowships, including those from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She has delivered public lectures on Jane Austen at Princeton and other institutions, contributing to Austen studies and eighteenth-century criticism.