Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1994
M.A., McGill University
B.A., Stanford University

Alessa Johns's interests include 18th-Century British literature and culture, 18th-century European women writers, Utopian literature and theory, Travel, the study of 18th-century Disasters, and Anglo-German cultural exchange.

She is Reviews Editor for Eighteenth-Century Studies.

Publication Spotlight

Women's Utopias of the Eighteenth Century
 by Alessa Johns

Publications

• Women's Utopias of the Eighteenth Century (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003)
• Editor and Introduction, Dreadful Visitations: Confronting Natural Catastrophe in the Age of Enlightenment (New York and London: Routledge, 1999) Includes essays by Pulitzer prize-winning historian Alan Taylor (History, UC Davis), Charles Walker (History, UC Davis), George Starr (English, UC Berkeley), Daniel Gordon (History, U Mass Amherst), Stephen Tobriner (Architecture, UC Berkeley), Carla Hesse (History, UC Berkeley), David Arnold (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London)

Awards and Honors

• Phi Beta Kappa, 1981
• Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities, 1983-1987
• Soroptimist Founder Region Dissertation Fellowship, 1991-1992
• Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, University of California, Berkeley, 1993
• Catherine Macaulay Prize, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, for the best graduate student essay on a women's studies subject, 1993
• Fulbright Foundation Research Fellowship; sponsor Prof. Dr. Ina Schabert, Director of the Graduiertenkolleg "Geschlechterdifferenz und Literatur"; University of Munich, Germany, 1997
• Faculty Development Award, University of California, Davis, 1999
• Research Fellowship, Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbuettel, Germany, 2003
• UC President's Research Fellowship in the Humanities, 2008-2009
  

Email:  amjohns@ucdavis.edu