Guillemette Johnston

GUILLEMETTE JOHNSTON is professor of French at DePaul University. A specialist in Rousseau and the Enlightenment, she also teaches French/Francophone literature and Liberal Studies courses on Patañjali’s Yoga Sutra, psychology of fairy tales, and Race, Power, and Resistance. She has lived in the French Antilles and Algeria, and published on Frantz Fanon (Dictionary of Literary Biography). Francophone courses taught address Islam and France, Haiti, identity shattered by immigration and colonialism, French Canadian literature, identity in the French Antilles, and Maghrebi novels of childhood. She co-edits JPSE: Journal for the Philosophical Study of Education, and has published (with Allan Johnston) translations in Metamorphoses, Ezra, Transference, and Milles Feuilles. She is author of Lectures poétiques: La Représentation poétique du discours théorique chez Jean-Jacques Rousseau and articles in Romanic Review, French Forum, Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, Pensée libre, Études Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the MLA Approaches to Teaching series, and elsewhere.