Cyraina Johnson-Roullier
Associate Professor
Fellow, Institute for Latino Studies
Specialty
Modern Literature and cultural theory, Literature of the Americas
Degrees
B.S.J., Ohio University; M.A., Ohio State University; M.A., Ph.D., State University of New York, Buffalo
Profile
Cyraina Johnson-Roullier is the author of Reading on the Edge: Exiles, Modernities and Cultural Transformation in Proust, Joyce and Baldwin (SUNY, 2000), and has published essays on modernism and literary and feminist theory. She has received a Presidential Fellowship at the State University of New York, Buffalo; a Research Fellowship from the Consortium for a Strong Minority Presence at Liberal Arts Colleges; a Ford Foundation Minority Postdoctoral Fellowship; and numerous internal grants and awards, including a Henkels Visiting Scholars Series grant. In 2004, she was invited to participate in the annual Feminist Roundtable organized by the Modernist Studies Association. She has held visiting appointments in Literature of the Americas in the Franke Institute and the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture at the University of Chicago, and in Emergent Literatures (Literature of the Americas) at the University of Geneva in Geneva, Switzerland. She also received the Black Graduating Class of 1999’s Outstanding Educator Teaching Award.
Professor Johnson-Roullier is currently working on a monograph entitled Invisible Wo/Men: Gender, Modernity, and Harlem’s Representations of Race, along with another entitled Confounded Identities: A Modernist Perspective on ‘Race,’ Essentialism and the Rhetoric of Power. She is also working on a co-edited project exploring the meaning of modernity in the Americas, and she will guest edit an upcoming issue of the Review of International American Studies, the online journal and official publishing venue of the International American Studies Association. She is the Program Director for the Americas and Global Cultures in the Institute for Latino Studies, a Fellow of the Institute for Latino Studies, and a member of the Executive Council of the International American Studies Association. She serves on the Publications Subcommittee of the IASA Executive Council and the Advisory Boards of the Institute for Latino Studies and the Review of International American Studies.
Recent Publications
“Comparitisms.” Review of International American Studies 1.1 (2006), http://www.iasa-rias.org/index.php?k=179&art=98.
“Modernity.” In Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History. Edited by William H. McNeill, et al., 1287-92.Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing Group, 2005.
Reading on the Edge: Exiles, Modernities and Cultural Transformation in Proust, Joyce and Baldwin. Albany: SUNY, 2000.
Recent Honors and Awards
Advisory Board, Review of International American Studies, January 2006 Executive Council, International Association of American Studies, January 2006
Fellow, Institute for Latino Studies, October 2005
Program Director, Americas and Global Cultures, Institute for Latino Studies, University of Notre Dame, November 2005
Summer Research Fellow, Institute for Latino Studies, June 2003
Contact Information
260 Decio Faculty Hall
(574) 631-7069
johnson.64@nd.edu