The Dwell

by Eleanor Johnson

Eleanor Johnson is a poet, scholar, translator, and teacher. She studies medieval poetics, ethics, and literary theories. She has taught literature and creative writing at the University of California, Berkeley, and is an Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She has published poetry in the online magazine Shampoo and has a forthcoming collaborative book entitled "Her Many Feathered Bones," from Achiote Press.

Genres: Poetry

90 pages, Paperback

Published May 15, 2009

About the author

Professor Johnson specializes in late medieval literature and culture. Her first book, Practicing Literary Theory in the Late Middle Ages: Ethics and the Mixed Form in Chaucer, Gower, Usk, and Hoccleve, was published in 2013 (Chicago). Her second book, Dramatizing Contemplation: Participatory Theology in Middle English Prose, Verse, and Drama, was published in 2018 (Chicago). Her Third book, Waste and the Wasters, about ecosystemic thought in medieval England, came out in 2023 (Chicago). Her newest book, Scream with Me, on horror films in the 1970s, is forthcoming with Atria Books in 2025. She is also the Poetry Section editor at Public Books