Ahearn,Barry               

Albrecht,Thomas                        

Codr,Dwight                           

Cooley,Peter                                   

Desai,Gaurav               

Desilets, Sean                       

Dinerstein,Joel                             

Elmwood,Victoria                   

Foy,Roslyn                             

Gates, Daniel

Gubernatis, Cat

Gelley,Ora                                                  

Hornby, Louis

Johnson,T.R.                                                       Kaufmann,David        

Kennedy,Todd

Kohler, Michelle

Koritz,Amy                                            

Kuczynski,Michael                             

Leland,Jacob                                       

Letter,Joe                                          

Lewis,Nghana                                   

Livingston,Judith                          

Mark,Rebecca                                    

McBride, Ryan

Morris,Paula                                         

Naimou, Angela

Nair,Supriya                                        

O'Conner, Tom

Oldman,Elizabeth                                     

Pizer,Donald                                        

Rothenberg,Molly       

Smith,Felipe                                          

Sponenberg, Ashlie

Travis,Molly

          T.R. Johnson

Associate Professor of English

Norman Mayer Room 120

Telephone: (504) 862-8163

Fax: (504) 862-8958

E-mail: trj@tulane.edu

http://www.tulane.edu/~trj

T. R. Johnson has served as an associate professor of English and Director of the Writing Program at Tulane since 2004, having previously taught at the University of New Orleans and Boston University.  He is the author of A Rhetoric of Pleasure: Prose Style and Today’s Composition Classroom (Heinemann, 2003) as well as the edited collections, Refiguring Prose Style: Possibilities for Writing Pedagogy (with Tom Pace; Utah, 2005) and Teaching Composition: The Background Readings (Bedford St. Martin’s, 2005).  He was born in Chicago, but grew up in Louisville. He returned to the Chicago area for his undergraduate education at Northwestern University in Evanston, and then moved to Charlottesville for his Master’s Degree at the University of Virginia, returning finally to Louisville, where he took his Ph.D. in 1997.  He has served as a disc-jockey at WWOZ  90.7 FM in New Orleans since 2001, and his program focuses mostly on jazz since 1959, with a particular emphasis on new releases and the classics of the experimental tradition. His show can be heard every Tuesday from 4:00pm to 7:00, either on the radio or via the web at www.wwoz.org.  An aspiring saxophonist, he also publishes occasional journalism on topics related to jazz, and these interests increasingly inform his academic writing, as his works-in-progress seek to address the role of the ear in the creative process, and in particular the way the activity of listening has been cast in literary texts (especially Blake and Joyce), in what’s known as ‘process’ philosophy (especially Nietzsche, Bergson, Heidegger, Deleuze, and Massumi), in discourses on sound technology, and, finally, in a variety of spiritual traditions. He teaches courses on writing and writing-pedagogy, as well as an undergraduate introduction to critical theory and a course on the literature of New Orleans.