Professional Experience

Associate Professor of Language and Literacy for Linguistic and Racial Diversity, Department of English, College of Arts and Letters; tenured; English Education

Assistant Professor of Language and Literacy for Linguistic and Racial Diversity, Department of English, College of Arts and Letters, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

Assistant Professor of Language and Literacy for Linguistic and Racial Diversity, Department of Teacher Education, College of Education, Health, and Society, Miami University, Oxford, OH

Selected Honors and Awards

Recipient, Critics Choice Book Award, 2019

Recipient, Edwin M. Hopkins Award, 2018

Recipient, Promising Researcher Award, 2017

Fellowship, STAR Mentoring Fellowship Program, 2015 - 2017

Selected Publications

Books:

Johnson, L. L. (2021; final manuscript submitted). Critical Race English Education: New visions, new possibilities. NCTE/Routledge.

Johnson, L. L., Boutte, G. S., Greene, G. & Smith, D. (Eds.) (2019). African diaspora literacy, the heart of transformation in k-12 schools and teacher education. Lexington Books: Rowman and Littlefield.

Edited Journals:

Johnson, L. L., Gibbs Grey, T. M., & Baker-Bell, A. (2017). Affirming and confirming our humanity: The importance of storytelling for early career language and literacy scholars of Color. (Themed Issue for Journal of Literacy Research).

Referred Journal Articles:

Smith, D., Johnson, L. L., Watson, W. M. V., & Torres, B. A. (2021). Announcing the 2019-2020 Alan C. Purves award recipients: Inspiring transformative literacy pedagogies. Research in The Teaching of English, 55(3), 322-328.

Johnson, L. L., Bryan, N., & Boutte, G. (2019). Show us the love: Revolutionary teaching in (un)critical times. Urban Review, 51(1), 46-64.

Johnson, L. L. (2018). Where do we go from here?: Toward a critical race English education. Research in the Teaching of English, 53(2), 102-124.

Johnson, L. L. (2017). The racial hauntings of one Black male professor and the disturbance of the self(ves): Self-actualization and racial storytelling as pedagogical practices. Journal of Literacy Research, 49(4), 1-27.

Book Chapters:

Torres, A. B. & Johnson, L. L. (2019). The normalization of anti-blackness in teacher education: A call for critical race frameworks. In Han, K. & Laughter, J. (Eds.), Critical race theory in Teacher education: Informing classroom culture and practice. New York: Teachers College Press.