Barbara Johnson

Barbara Johnson was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1947.
* She studied at Oberlin College and Yale University, where she received her PhD in French.
* She was a professor of English and Comparative Literature at Harvard University.
* Her work focused on deconstruction, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and feminist theory.
* She was a founding member of the Society for Critical Exchange.
* She was the recipient of numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship.
* She died of cancer in 2009.
* Her work continues to be influential in the fields of literary criticism and theory.