Dr Louise Johnson
School of Languages and Cultures
Director of Catalan Studies
+44 114 222 0559
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- Profile
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Louise Johnson was an undergraduate and postgraduate at St John's College, University of Oxford, and College Lecturer at Keble College, before joining the Department of Hispanic Studies at 91直播 in January 1996.
Within the now School of Languages and Cultures, Louise is Director of Catalan Studies, and teaches Catalan and Spanish language, literature, culture, and Translation Studies at undergraduate level, and contributes to taught postgraduate modules, as well as supervising research students in the areas of Catalan and Iberian Studies, with a particularly focus on literature. Louise is also currently Faculty of Arts and Humanities Assistant Director of Research and Innovation with responsibility for Postgraduate Affairs.
- Research interests
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Louise 虂s research interests centre on modern Catalan and peninsular Spanish literature and culture (in particular physical culture and sport, narrative fiction, and gender and sexuality). Her current research follows two main strands: the intellectuals / physical culture interface in C20th Catalonia and Spain more generally, and modern Catalan literature.
She has published on major twentieth-century Catalan writers including Lloren莽 Villalonga, Manuel de Pedrolo and Maria Aur猫lia Capmany; edited collections of articles on twentieth-century Catalan culture, and on humour in Spain, and contributed widely to volumes across Catalan and comparative literatures and cultures, on physical cultures and related discourses, and latterly on the extraordinary novel, poet, sculptor and prolific commentator Guillem Viladot. Her monograph on Lloren莽 Villalonga, La tafanera posteritat, was awarded the first Lloren莽 Villalonga Prize in 2001.
Louise is currently translating Villalonga鈥檚 Andrea V铆ctrix (1974) for the publisher Fum d鈥橢stampa (due end 2020/ early 2021).
- Research group
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Louise has broad interests across transnational literatures, history and perspectives on identity. She is interested in supervising research which relates to or expands on the above areas, and welcomes speculative enquiries.
- Publications
Selected recent publications include:
[Forthcoming June 2020] Johnson, P.L., 鈥極edipus and the Spanish Crown: The Abject Imaginings of Guillem Viladot鈥, in Catalan Narrative 1875-2015, edited by Jordi Larios and Montserrat Lunati (Cambridge: Legenda)
Johnson, P.L., 鈥楢rt at the Biomedical Interface: Trans/Sculptural Discourses in Guillem Viladot鈥檚 搁耻迟丑鈥, Hispanic Research Journal, 19:4 (2018), 399-414
Johnson, P.L., 鈥樷淥bra de arte yo too鈥: Eduardo Mendicutti on Soccer, Glamour, and the 鈥淏eckham Effect鈥濃, Romance Quarterly, 63:2 (2016), 73-82
Johnson, P.L., 鈥楥ompeting Disocurses of Olympism: Barcelona鈥92 as a Conflicted Memory Site鈥, in J.A. Fern脿ndez and J. Subirana (eds), Funcions del passat en la cultura catalana contempor脿nia. Institucionalitzaci贸, representacions i identitat (Lleida: Punctum, 2015), 61-85
Johnson, P.L., 鈥業ndustries of False Memoirs: Representing Salvador Orlan鈥, Digithum (2013), 18-25 (Available in Catalan and English)
Johnson, P.L., 鈥楩uture Age and Children: A Compensatory 鈥淭rope of Vulnerability鈥 in Lloren莽 Villalonga鈥檚 Fiction?鈥, in As Time Goes By: Portraits of Age, ed. by Joy Charnley and Caroline Verdier (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013), 211-228
Johnson, P.L., 鈥楾he Lyrical Taboos of Guillem Viladot鈥, in Barcelona: Visual Culture, Space and Power, ed. by Helena Buffery and Carlota Caulfield (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2012), 58-80
Johnson, P.L., 鈥楽port and Catalonia鈥, in A Companion to Catalan Culture, ed. by Dominic Keown (Woodbridge: Tamesis, 2011), 143-62