Adrea Johnson

Dr. Adrea Johnson is an instructor of English Literature at the University of the Fraser Valley. She has taught at the University of Alberta, Langara College, and Regent College, where she also curated the Rare Books Collection in the John Richard Allison Library. She earned her doctorate in English Literature from the University of Alberta, specializing in women’s religious writing of the nineteenth century. Her ongoing research examines the work of Susannah Spurgeon, intersecting with seventeenth-century Puritanism. Her article on the hymnologist John Mason Neale appeared in CRUX. Her recent publication, Negotiating Faith and Feminism in Late Medieval and Early Modern Women’s Lives and Works (co-edited with Dr. Holly Faith Nelson), theorizes how late medieval and early modern Western women critically and creatively negotiated their faith and feminism.