[1] Johnson, a native of North Carolina, earned a PhD in Literature at the University of Illinois in 1973.
She is the author of nine books covering a wide range of subjects, including the influential To Kill a Mockingbird: Threatening Boundaries (1994) and Church and Stage: The Theatre As Target of Religious Condemnation in Nineteenth Century America (2007).
Johnson also wrote a series of 10 educational books published by Greenwood Press (1994-2002), including: “Hawthorne and Nineteenth-Century Perfectionism,” American Literature, December, 1972.
“Justification and ‘Young Goodman Brown," Studies in Short Fiction, Spring, 974.
“Impotence and Omnipotence in The Scarlet Letter,” New England Quarterly, December, 1993.