Department
of Language and Literature
2000 Clayton State Boulevard
Morrow, GA
30260
w.
(678) 466-4737
Doctor
of Philosophy, French,
University of
Florida, 1999. Director: Douglas A. Bonneville.
Master
of Arts, French,
University
of South Carolina, 1992. Director: William F. Edmiston.
Bachelor of Arts, Modern Languages,
The Citadel, magna cum laude, 1987.
2008-2009 Interim Department Chair, Dept. of Language & Literature, Clayton State University
2006-present Associate Professor of Foreign Languages,
(tenured) Dept. of Language & Literature, Clayton
2004-2006 Assistant Professor of Foreign Languages, Dept. of Language & Literature, Clayton
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 H.S.,
1999-2000 Adjunct Instructor of French, Dept. of
Communications,
1993-1998 Graduate Teaching Assistant and
Fellow of French and Spanish, Dept. of Romance Languages and Literature, U
of
1992-1993 Lecturer of French and Spanish, Dept. of Languages. U of Virginia’s College at Wise.
1991-1992 Graduate Teaching Assistant of French, Dept. of
French & Classics, U of
1988-1990 Lecteur
d’anglais,
la Faculté des
Lettres et la Faculté des Sciences Économiques et Sociales, l’Université de
Haute
1987-1988 Graduate
Teaching Assistant of French,
Dept. of Foreign Languages, U of
Selected participant,
International Seminar on the Eighteenth Century: “Transnational Readings:
Intercultural
Century,”
International Society for
Eighteenth-Century Studies, July 29-August 2, 2003.
Faculty Development Grants,
Distinguished Professor Program Grant,
Guest
Speaker, Modern Language Department’s Annual Awards Banquet, The Citadel, April
12, 2000.
Sole
Nominee for the Council of
Graduate Travel Awards, U of
Dissertation Fellowship, College of Liberal
Arts & Sciences, U of
Grinter Sponsored
Research Fellowship,
U of
Fellowship,
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, U of
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).
E. Joe Johnson and Byron R. Wells, eds. An American Voltaire: Essays in Memory of J. Patrick Lee. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, late 2008 (under contract).
Books and editions

E. Joe Johnson, introduction, glossing, notes, and editor. Manon Lescaut. By Abbé Prévost. Newark, DE: Molière et Compagnie, 2006.
Reviewed by William J. Cloonan in South Atlantic Review 72 (2007): 100-02.

E. Joe Johnson, ed.
The Adapted
Victor Hugo.

E.
Joe Johnson.
Once
There Were Two True Friends, or Idealized Male Friendship in French Narrative
from
the
Middle Ages through the Enlightenment.
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.
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.
“Can
Women and Men Be Friends? Writings on Friendship in
1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (in publication).
"Bricaire de la Dixmerie's Azakia (1765), or the Peripatetic Plot" in An American Voltaire: Essays in Memory of J. Patrick Lee. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (in publication).
"Introduction," in An American Voltaire: Essays in Memory of J. Patrick Lee. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (in publication).
“How
male relationships shape a 'woman's' text,”
in Approaches
to Teaching Marguerite de
“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.
“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.
Convents and Nuns in Eighteenth-Century French Politics and Culture. By Mita Choudhury. Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography. Vols. XXX. New York: AMS Press,
(accepted for publication).
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
The Poet and the King: Jean de La
Fontaine and His Century. By
Marc Fumaroli.
Seventeenth-Century
The Fables of La Fontaine: Wisdom Come down to Earth. By Andrew Calder. Seventeenth-Century
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
22.
Sick Heroes: French Society and Literature
in the Romantic Age, 1750-1850. By Allan H.
Urban Protest in
Seventeenth-Century
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
Central Intelligencer, 12: 1/2 (1998): 28-31.
Homosexuality
in Modern
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.
Selected Conference Presentations
“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,” 39th
American
Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Portland, OR, March 26, 2008.
"Editing French texts for the classroom: Manon Lescaut and La
Religieuse," 34th 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,
“The
Later French Rewritings of “Azakia,” 32nd Southeastern American
Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies,
“Friendship
in the Feminine,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies,
“The
Conflicting demands of love and friendship: C. B. Fagan’s L'Amitié
rivale de l'amour (1735),”
“Dixmerie’s
peripatetic plot continued, or the Graffigny Papers' Azakia, ou les reconnoissances 30th
“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,
August
5, 2003.
“Bonding
in a Bourgeois Mode, or Beaumarchais’ Les
Deux Amis,” 29th Southeastern American Society for
“Fashioning
Friendship to French Tastes, or Pérez de Montalbán’s ‘La Desgraciada Amistad’
(1624) and
for Eighteenth-Century
Studies. Québec,
“Trafficking
in Women: Marmontel’s ‘L’Amitié à l’épreuve’,” East Coast-American Society for
Eighteenth-
“Erotic
Triangles and Tests of Friendship: ‘La Desgraciada Amistad’(1624) of Pérez de
Montalbán,” Exploring
“Bricaire
de la Dixmerie’s ‘Azakia,’ or France Civilizing the
“The
Ménage à trois and Idealized Friendship in Saint-Lambert’s ‘Les Deux Amis,
conte iroquois’ (1770),” 16th International Conference in Literature,
Visual Arts, and/or Cinema,
November 3, 2001.
“La
Fontaine’s ‘Les deux Amis’ (1678),” 8th International Congress of
the Beast Fable Society, Marrakech,
“Idealized
Male Friendship in a Medieval Setting: Poinsinet de Sivry’s “Les Deux paladins,
ou l’amitié à
“Sleeping
with the Devil: Misogyny and Sodomy in François de Rosset’s Histoires tragiques,” 50th
South-Central
“Tiberge
and Des Grieux, Friends?” 27th Southeastern American Society for
Eighteenth-Century Studies,
“The
Dangers of Male Friendship in François de Rosset’s Histoires tragiques,” 48th South-Central Renaissance
“Idealized
Male Friendship in the Abbé Prévost’s Manon
Lescaut,” 26th Southeastern American Society for
“Projecting
a Courtly Façade: Blaise de Monluc's Commentaires,”
47th South-Central Renaissance Conference,
“Lorenzaccio
and Violent Homosocial Space in Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron,” 46th South-Central
“Making
a Homosocial Bond: Performative Masculinity, Marriage and Knighthood in Chrétien
de Troyes'
Conference X,
“‘Ce
penchant’: Sadistic Representations of Homosexuality in the Justine series,” American Society of
“Ambiguity,
Sexual and Otherwise, of Palimpsest in Molière's Don Juan,” Comparative Drama Conference
Classics Illustrated Deluxe #4: Frankenstein. By Marion Mousse & Marie Galopin. New York: Papercutz, 2009 (in publication).
Miss Don’t Touch Me. By Hubert & Kerascoet. New York: NBM Publishing, 2009 (February, in publication).
Why I Killed Peter. By Alfred & Olivier Ka. New York: NBM Publishing, 2009 (January, in publication).
Nocturnal Conspiracies. By David B. (Pierre-François Beauchard). New York: NBM Publishing, 2008 (December, in publication).
Dungeon Monstres, Vol. 2: The Dark Lord. By Joann Sfar, Lewis Trondheim & Andreas.New York: NBM Publishing, 2008 (in publication).
Classics Illustrated Deluxe #3: Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe. By Christophe Gaultier. New York: Papercutz, 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.
Dungeon: The Twilight Years, Vol.2: Armageddon.
Dungeon: The Twilight Years, Vol. 1: The Dragons’ Cemetery.
By
Dungeon: The Early Years, Vol. 1: The Night Shirt..
Ordinary Victories.
Wake, Vol. 6: Artifice / Vol. 7: Maximum (In)security.
By
Isaac the Pirate, Vol. 2: The Capital.
By
The Invisible Frontier, Vol. 2.
Raptors, Vol. 4.
Isaac the Pirate, Vol. 1: To Exotic Lands.
The Speed Abater.
Wake, Vol. 4: The Sign of Demons / Vol. 5.
Marcel Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past: Within a
Budding Grove, Vol. 2.
Oddballz. vols. 1-8:
n.s. (2002-03).
Dungeon,
vols. 1-8: n.s. (2002-03).
The Invisible Frontier, Vol. 1.
“Hunter’s Moon.”
By
Gipsy: Siberian Fires.
Marcel Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past: Within a
Budding Grove, Vol. 1.
Wake, Vol. 3: Gearing Up.
The Wind in the Willows, Vol. 4.
Panic at Toad Hall.
Based on the novel by Kenneth Grahame.
Raptors, Vol. 3.
The Tea Box.
Brüsel.
Wake, Vol. 2: Private Collection.
Marcel Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past: Combray.
Wake: Fire and Ashes.
Dixie Road.
Gipsy: The Gipsy Star.
Raptors, Vol. 2.
On Cloud 99: Memories, Part 1.
The Weight of the World: Social Suffering in Contemporary
Society.
Co-Trans. Susan Emanuel and Priscilla Ferguson.
Stanford: Stanford UP, 1999.
The Wind in the Willows, Vol. 3. The Gates of Dawn.
Based on the novel by Kenneth Grahame.
Brilliant and Crazy Inventions.
Our Planet Earth.
Raptors.
After the Rain.
By
The Wind in the Willows, Vol. 2.
Mr. Toad.
Based on the novel by Kenneth Grahame. By
A Jew in Communist Prague, Vol. 3.
Peter and the Wolf.
A Jew in Communist Prague, Vol. 2. Adolescence.
Co-Translator, Jacinthe Leclerc. By
The Wind in the Willows,
Vol. 1. The Wild Wood.
Based on the novel by Kenneth Grahame.
By
Departmental and School Service
Chair, Spanish Search Committee, Clayton State U, Fall 2007.
Member, Smith Award Committee (for outstanding faculty), Clayton State U, 2006-2007.
Member,
University Curriculum and Policy
Committee, Clayton
State U, Fall 2005-present.
Representative,
Regents Academic Advisory Committee, Foreign Languages,
Member,
Search Committees, Clayton
State U, Spring 2005.
Member,
School of Arts & Sciences Curriculum
Committee,
Clayton State U, Fall 2004-Sping 2006.
Interpreter and
Faculty chaperone, Student-group trip for Habitat for
Humanity build (Global Villages) in
Member, Taskforce on Scholarship,
ad hoc committee,
Georgia Southwestern State University, 2003-04.
Representative,
European Council of the University System of Georgia,
Representative,
Regents Academic Advisory Committee, Foreign Languages,
Interpreter and
Faculty chaperone,
Student exchange in
Chair, Intellectual Property Rights Committee,
ad hoc, Georgia Southwestern SU, 2002-03.
Member, Search
Committees,
Coordinator, Teaching
Co-Sponsor, The Chunnel
Member, Scholarship & Financial Aid
Founder and
Co-organizer, English & Modern
Languages Film Series, 2001-2004.
Founder and
Organizer
of Parley-View, an English and Modern
Languages
Organizer, French Film
Festival for National French Week,
Professional Service and Development
Associate
Editor,
for
the review journal Seventeenth-Century
News, 2005-present.
Second Vice-President, Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2008-2009.
Member, Nominating Committee, Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2007-2008.
Program Committee Chair, joint meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and the
Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies in Atlanta, March 2007.
Program
Committee Chair,
joint
meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and the
Southeastern
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies in
Member, Executive Board, Southeastern American Society for
Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2003-2007.
Member, South Atlantic Modern Language Association Studies Award Committee, 2003-2007,
Committee Chair in 2007.
Session
Chair,
(French II-17th & 18th Centuries). 2005