Tara Star Johnson

Assistant Professor
English Education
Departments of English & Curriculum and Instruction

Education

Ph.D.	University of Georgia, 2005, Language Education
M.A.	University of Georgia, 2001, English Education
B.A.	Grand Valley State University, 1993, English

Courses Taught

EDCI 434	Teaching English in the Junior High/Middle School
EDCI 498F	Supervised Teaching of English Education

Professional Experience

2006-Present	Assistant Professor of English Education English & Curriculum and Instruction College of Education, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
2005-2006	Temporary Full-Time Assistant Professor Department of Curriculum, Foundations, and Reading Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA
2000-2005	Research Assistant University of Georgia, Athens, GA
2000-2003	Teaching Assistant Department of Language and Literacy Education College of Education, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
1994-2000	English & Science Teacher, 9th-12th grades Newaygo High School, Newaygo Public Schools, Newaygo, MI
1990-1993	Writing Tutor The Writing Center, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI

Research

Research interests include the intersections among race, class, gender, and sexuality in education. Attention is focused on teacher-student relationships and teacher embodiment, viewing both through a feminist and poststructural epistemological lens.

Selected Publications

• Johnson, T.S. (in press). Qualitative research in question: Disciplinary power with/in the IRB. Qualitative Inquiry, 13(8).
  
  
• Johnson, T. S. (2006). Performing a/ sexual teacher: The Cartesian duality in education. The Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, 28, 253-256.
  
  
• Johnson, T. S. (2005). The "problem" of bodies and desires in teaching. Teaching Education, 16(2), 131-149.
  
  
• Johnson, T. S., Bruce, M., Graham, P., Oliver, S., Oppong, N., Park, S., & Mansberger, D. (2005). Giving Tree Teachers: Women and the National Board certification process. Feminist Teacher, 15(3), 234-249.
  
  
• Johnson, T. S. (2004). "I secretly relished that delicious feeling of excitement": A rhizoanalysis of teacher-student attraction. Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education, 8(2), 83-95.
  
  
• Johnson, T. S. (2004). "It's pointless to deny that that dynamic that is there": Sexual tensions in secondary classrooms. English Education, 37(1), 5-29.
  
  
• Johnson, T. S., Smagorinsky, P., Thompson, L., & Fry, P. G. (2003). Learning to teach the five-paragraph theme. Research in the Teaching of English, 38, 136-176.
  
  
• Smagorinsky, P., Cook, L. S., & Johnson, T. S. (2003). The twisting path of concept development in learning to teach. Teachers College Record, 105, 1399-1436.