2004-2009             Assistant and Associate Professor of Foreign Languages, Dept. of Language & Literature, Clayton State University.

2000-2004             Assistant Professor of French and Spanish, Dept. of English & Modern Languages, Georgia Southwestern SU.

2000-2003              Instructor of French, Ramapo College of New Jersey, Governor’s School of International Studies, (July enrichment program for H.S. students).

1998-2000             Teacher of French, International Baccalaureate program, Vanguard High School, Ocala, FL.

1999-2000             Adjunct Instructor of French, Dept. of Communications, Central Florida Community College.

1993-1998             Graduate Teaching Assistant and Fellow of French and Spanish, Dept. of Romance Languages and Literature, U of Florida.

1992-1993             Lecturer of French and Spanish, Dept. of Languages. University of Virginia’s College at Wise.

1991-1992             Graduate Teaching Assistant of French, Dept. of French & Classics, University of South Carolina.

1988-1990             Lecteur d’anglais, la Faculté des Lettres et la Faculté des Sciences Économiques et Sociales, l’Université de Haute Alsace, Mulhouse, France.

1987-1988             Graduate Teaching Assistant of French, Dept. of Foreign Languages, University of South Carolina.

Fellowships, Honors, and Grants

Selected participant, International Seminar on the Eighteenth Century: “Transnational Readings: Intercultural Discourse in the Eighteenth 

           Century,” International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, July 29-August 2, 2003.

Faculty Development Grants, Georgia Southwestern State University, Fall 2003; Spring and Fall 2002; Spring 2001.

Distinguished Professor Program Grant, Georgia Southwestern State University Foundation, Fall 2002; Fall 2000.

Guest Speaker, Modern Language Department’s Annual Awards Banquet, The Citadel, April 12, 2000.

Sole Nominee for the Council of Graduate Schools / University Microfilms International Distinguished Dissertation Award, University of Florida, 1999.

Graduate Travel Awards, University of Florida, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995.

Dissertation Fellowship, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, University of Florida, 1997.

Grinter Sponsored Research Fellowship, University of Florida, 1993-96.

Fellowship, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, University of Florida, 1993-94.

Magna cum laude, The Citadel, 1987.

Star of the West Scholarship (full academic scholarship), The Citadel, 1983-87.

Scholarship

Current Projects

E. Joe Johnson, introduction, glossing, notes, and editor. La Religieuse. By Denis Diderot. Newark, Delaware: Molière & Co, (under contract).

Books and editions

E. Joe Johnson and Byron R. Wells, eds. An American Voltaire: Essays in Memory of J. Patrick Lee. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009.

E. Joe Johnson, introduction, glossing, notes, and editor. Manon Lescaut. By Abbé Prévost. Newark, DE: Molière et Compagnie, 2006.

Reviewed by Dany Roberge in Eighteenth-Century Fiction 21:02 (Winter 2008-2009): 319-20.

Reviewed by Florian Vauléon in French Review 82:2 (2008): 446-47.

Reviewed by William J. Cloonan in South Atlantic Review 72 (2007): 100-02.

E. Joe Johnson, ed. The Adapted Victor Hugo. By Victor Hugo. New York: NBM Publications, 2004.

E. Joe Johnson. Once There Were Two True Friends, or Idealized Male Friendship in French Narrative from        

the Middle Ages through the Enlightenment. Birmingham, AL: Summa Publications, 2003.

Reviewed by Edith J. Benkov in Dalhousie French Studies 78 (2007): 149-50.

Reviewed by Brian G. Kennelly in French Review : 80: 6 (2007): 1366-67.

Reviewed by Catherine Emerson and Adrian P. Tudor in The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies 66: 2004 (2006): 56 and in French Studies 59/4 (2005): 577-78.

Reviewed by Simon Gaunt in French Studies 2005: 59 (4): 577-78.

Cited and referenced by Gary Ferguson in Queer (Re)Readings in the French Renaissance (Aldershot, England and Burlington: Ashgate, 2008), 90n, 353.

Referenced by Colette H. Winn, ed. in Approaches to Teaching Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptameron (New York: Modern Language Association, 2007), 231.

Cited by Simon Gaunt in Love and Death in Medieval French and Occitan Courtly Literature: Martyrs to Love (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), 192-94, 226.

Referenced by Stephen G. Nichols in “Writing the New Middle Ages” in PMLA 120: 2 (Mar 2005): 440.

Articles and annotated bibliographies

“Can Women and Men Be Friends? Writings on Friendship in France 's Ancien Régime, and C. B. Fagan's Comedy L'Amitié rivale de l'amour (1735),” in

       1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (in publication).

“The Baron de Saint-Castin, Bricaire de la Dixmerie, and Azakia (1765)” in An American Voltaire: Essays in Memory of J. Patrick Lee. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 201-220.

“How male relationships shape a 'woman's' text,” in Approaches to Teaching Marguerite de Navarre 's Heptameron. New York : MLA, 2007. 188-21.

“Philosophical Reflection, Happiness, and Male Friendship in Prévost's Manon Lescaut,” in Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 31 (2002): 169-90.

Updated bibliography for “La Fontaine, Jean de” (article by Raymond LePage) in Critical Survey of Poetry, Second Revised Edition. Ed. Philip K. Jason. Vol. 4. Pasadena: Salem Press, 2002. 2142-43.

“Who loved the better? La Fontaine’s ‘Les deux Amis’(1678),” in Bestia: Yearbook of the Beast Fable Society  8 (2001/2002): 59-80.

“Ambiguity, Sexual and Otherwise, of Palimpsest in Molière's Don Juan,” in Text and Presentation 16 (1995): 53-56.

Book Reviews

Convents and Nuns in Eighteenth-Century French Politics and Culture. By Mita Choudhury. Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography. Vols. XXX. New York: AMS Press, (in publication).

British-French Exchanges in the Eighteenth Century. By Kathleen Hardesty Doig & Dorothy Medlin, eds. New Perspectives on the Eighteenth-Century 6: 1 (2009): 67-68.

Diderot and European culture. By Frédéric Ogée & Anthony Strugnell, eds.  New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century 5:1 (2007): 79-81 .

Sade: From Materialism to Pornography. By Caroline Warman. New Perspectives on the Eighteenth-Century 3 (2006): 80-82

The Poet and the King: Jean de La Fontaine and His Century. By Marc Fumaroli. Seventeenth-Century News 62: 1-2 (2004): 78-81.

The Fables of La Fontaine: Wisdom Come down to Earth. By Andrew Calder.  Seventeenth-Century News 60: 1-2 (2002): 75-77.

Closet Devotions. By Richard Rambuss. Seventeenth-Century News 59: 1-2 (2001): 67-70.

Circles of Censorship: Censorship and its Metaphors in French History, Literature, and Theory. By Nicholas Harrison. Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography. Vols. 21 &

        22. New York: AMS Press, 2001. 90-91.

Sick Heroes: French Society and Literature in the Romantic Age, 1750-1850. By Allan H. Pasco.  South Atlantic Review 65: 4 (2000): 207-10

Urban Protest in Seventeenth-Century France: The Culture of Retribution. By William Beik. Seventeenth-Century News 58: 3-4 (2000): 220-23.

The Invention of Sodomy in Christian Theology. By Mark D. Jordan. LGSN, 23: 1/2 (1998): 49-50.

“Swords in Myrtle Dress'd”: Toward a Rhetoric of Sodom: Gay Readings of Homosexual Politics and Poetics in the Eighteenth Century. By Jon Thomas Rowland. The East-

       Central Intelligencer, 12: 1/2 (1998): 28-31.

Homosexuality in Modern France. By Jeffrey Merrick & Bryant T. Ragan, Jr. (eds). South Atlantic Review 62: 2 (1997): 142-44.

Sex and the Church: Gender, Homosexuality and the Transformation of Christian Ethics. By Kathy Rudy. Lambda Book Report 6: 03 (Oct 1997): 28.

Mothers, Madams, and “Lady-like” Men: Proust and the Maternal. By Elizabeth R. Viti. South Atlantic Review 61: 1 (1996): 145-47.

Selected Conference Presentations

“The Baron de Saint-Castin in Yves Cazaux’s novelization,” 35^th Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Charlotte, NC, March 5, 2009.

“French versions of Azakia in Revolutionary Times” 2009 Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, 1750-1850, Savannah, GA, February 20, 2009.

“A Frenchman on the North American Frontier, or Chasing after the Baron de Saint-Castin,” Canadian Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Montreal, CA, October 15-18, 2008, (accepted for presentation).

“Women as exploited figures in Prévost's Mémoires pour servir à l’Histoire de Malte,” 39^th American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Portland, OR, March 26, 2008.
"Editing French texts for the classroom: Manon Lescaut and La Religieuse," 34^th Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Auburn, AL, February 17, 2008.

“Virtues and vices in the Abbé Prévost’s Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de Malte,” South Atlantic Modern Language Association 2007 Annual Convention, Atlanta, GA, November 9, 2007.

“The Face of Ugliness in the Abbé Prévost’s Manon Lescaut and La Jeunesse du commandant de Malte,” South Atlantic Modern Language Association 2006 Annual Convention,

        Charlotte, NC, November 12, 2006.

“The Later French Rewritings of “Azakia,” 32^nd Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Athens , GA , March 2, 2006.

“Friendship in the Feminine,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Las Vegas , NV , April 1, 2005.

“The Conflicting demands of love and friendship: C. B. Fagan’s L'Amitié rivale de l'amour (1735),” 31^st Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Myrtle Beach , SC , March 4, 2005.

“Dixmerie’s peripatetic plot continued, or the Graffigny Papers' Azakia, ou les reconnoissances 30^th Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Savannah, GA, March 5, 2004.

“Épuisé par l’amour et l’amitié: Prévost’s Mémoires pour servir à l’histoire de Malte,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies / International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Los Angeles, CA,

         August 5, 2003.

“Bonding in a Bourgeois Mode, or Beaumarchais’ Les Deux Amis,” 29^th Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Columbia, SC, March 2, 2003.

“Fashioning Friendship to French Tastes, or Pérez de Montalbán’s ‘La Desgraciada Amistad’ (1624) and Lesage’s “La Force de l’Amitié’ (1707),” Canadian Society

         for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Québec, Canada, October 26, 2002.

“Trafficking in Women: Marmontel’s ‘L’Amitié à l’épreuve’,” East Coast-American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference at Rosemont College, Rosemont, PA, October 19, 2002.

“Erotic Triangles and Tests of Friendship: ‘La Desgraciada Amistad’(1624) of Pérez de Montalbán,” Exploring the Renaissance 2002, an International Conference, St. Louis U, St. Louis, MO, April 6, 2002.

“Bricaire de la Dixmerie’s ‘Azakia,’ or France Civilizing the New World,” 28^th Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Chapel Hill, NC, February 28, 2002.

“The Ménage à trois and Idealized Friendship in Saint-Lambert’s ‘Les Deux Amis, conte iroquois’ (1770),” 16^th International Conference in Literature, Visual Arts, and/or Cinema, Atlanta, GA,

         November 3, 2001.

“La Fontaine’s ‘Les deux Amis’ (1678),” 8^th International Congress of the Beast Fable Society, Marrakech, Morocco, July 8, 2001.

“Idealized Male Friendship in a Medieval Setting: Poinsinet de Sivry’s “Les Deux paladins, ou l’amitié à l’épreuve,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, New Orleans, April 18, 2001.

“Sleeping with the Devil: Misogyny and Sodomy in François de Rosset’s Histoires tragiques,” 50^th South-Central Renaissance Conference, Texas A & M U, College Station, TX, April 7, 2001.

“Tiberge and Des Grieux, Friends?” 27^th Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Huntsville, AL, March 2, 2001.

“The Dangers of Male Friendship in François de Rosset’s Histoires tragiques,” 48^th South-Central Renaissance Conference, U of Louisiana at Lafayette, April 7, 2000.

“Idealized Male Friendship in the Abbé Prévost’s Manon Lescaut,” 26^th Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Savannah, March 4, 2000.

“Projecting a Courtly Façade: Blaise de Monluc's Commentaires,” 47^th South-Central Renaissance Conference, Baylor U, Waco, TX, April 3, 1998.

“Lorenzaccio and Violent Homosocial Space in Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron,” 46^th South-Central Renaissance Conference, St. Edwards U, Austin, TX, March 21, 1997.

“Making a Homosocial Bond: Performative Masculinity, Marriage and Knighthood in Chrétien de Troyes' Yvain, ou le chevalier au lion,” Medieval-Renaissance

        Conference X, Clinch Valley College of the U of Virginia, September 20, 1996.

“‘Ce penchant’: Sadistic Representations of Homosexuality in the Justine series,” American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies Meeting, U of Texas at Austin, March 31, 1996.

“Ambiguity, Sexual and Otherwise, of Palimpsest in Molière's Don Juan,” Comparative Drama Conference XIX, U of Florida, March 24, 1995.

Selected Translations

Classics Illustrated Deluxe #6: Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe. By Christophe Gaultier. New York: Papercutz, 2009 (in publication).

Classics Illustrated Deluxe #5: Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island. By Dvaid Chauvel, Fred Simon & Jean-Luc Simon. New York: Papercutz, 2010 (in publication).

Marcel Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past: Swann in Love, Vol. 2. By Stéphane Heuet. New York: NBM Publishing, 2009 (in publication).

Dungeon: The Early Years, Vol. 2: Innocence Lost. By Christophe Blain, Joann Sfar & Lewis Trondheim. New York: NBM Publishing, 2009 (in publication).

Classics Illustrated Deluxe #4: Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. By Jean David Morvan, Frédérique Voulyzé & Séverine Lefèbvre. New York: Papercutz, 2009 (in publication).

Mijeong. By Byun Byung Jun. New York: NBM Publishing, 2009.

Dungeon: Zenith, Vol. 3: Back in Style. By Boulet, Joann Sfar & Lewis Trondheim. New York: NBM Publishing, 2009.

Little Nothings, Vol. 2: The Prisoner Syndrome. By Lewis Trondheim. New York: NBM Publishing, 2009.

Classics Illustrated Deluxe #3: Frankenstein. By Marion Mousse & Marie Galopin. New York: Papercutz, 2009.

Miss Don’t Touch Me. By Hubert & Kerascoet. New York: NBM Publishing, 2009.

Why I Killed Peter. By Alfred & Olivier Ka. New York: NBM Publishing, 2009.

Nocturnal Conspiracies. By David B. (Pierre-François Beauchard). New York: NBM Publishing, 2008.

Dungeon Monstres, Vol. 2: The Dark Lord. By Joann Sfar, Lewis Trondheim & Andreas.New York: NBM Publishing, 2008 (in publication).

Ordinary Victories, Vol. 2: What is Precious. By Manu Larcenet. New York: NBM Publishing, 2008.

Classics Illustrated Deluxe #2: Tales of the Brothers Grimm. By Philip Petit, Pierre Lavaud Mazan & Cécile Chicault. New York: Papercutz, 2008.

Dungeon Monstres, Vol. 1: The Crying Giant. By Mazan (Pierre Lavaud), Jean Christophe Menu, Joann Sfar & Lewis Trondehim. New York: NBM Publishing, 2008.

Little Nothings, Vol. 1. The Curse of the Umbrella. By LewisTrondheim. New York: NBM Publishing, 2008.

Classics Illustrated Deluxe #1: The Wind in the Willows. By Michel Plessix & Kenneth Grahame. New York: NBM Publishing, 1997; Papercutz, 2007.

The Museum Vaults: Excerpts from the Journal of an Expert. By Marc-Antoine Mathieu. New York, NBM Publishing, 2007.

Marcel Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past: Swann in Love, Vol. 1. By Stéphane Heuet. New York: NBM Publishing, 2007.

Dungeon Parade, Vol. 2: Day of the Toads. By Joann Sfar, Lewis Trondheim & Manu Larcenet. New York: NBM Publishing, 2007.

Run, Bong-Gu, Run!  By Byun Byung Jun. New York: NBM Publishing, 2007.

Dungeon Parade, Vol. 1: A Dungeon Too Many. By Joann Sfar, Lewis Trondheim & Manu Larcenet. New York: NBM Publishing, 2006.

Glacial Period. By Nicolas de Crécy. New York : NBM Publications, 2006.

Dungeon: The Twilight Years, Vol.2: Armageddon. By Joann Sfar & Lewis Trondheim. New York: NBM Publishing, 2006.