Faculty/Staff

• Assistant Professor, Writing Program Director, English
• Assistant Professor, English Graduate Program

First Year at Xavier University:

2009

Degrees:

• B.A. (Calvin College)
• M.A., Ph.D (Purdue University)

Expertise:

Rhetorical theory, composition pedagogy, writing program administration

Biography:

Kristine Johnson directs the writing program and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in rhetoric, composition theory and pedagogy, peer tutoring, and professional writing. She received her BA in English from Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and her MA and PhD in Rhetoric and Composition from Purdue University. Her primary research areas are rhetorical theory and writing program administration.

Recent Publications:

“The Things that Unite Us: Transcendence in the First Decade of the Catholic Worker.” Journal of Communication and Religion. Forthcoming.

Johnson, Kristine. “Beyond Standards: Disciplinary and National Perspectives on Habits of Mind.” College Composition and Communication 64.3 (2013): 517–41.

Johnson, Kristine and Paul Lynch. “Ad perfectum eloquentiam: The ‘Spoils of Egypt’ in Jesuit Renaissance Rhetoric. Rhetoric Review 31.2 (2012): 99–116.