{"id":3562,"date":"2016-10-05T17:50:43","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T17:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.publicbooks.org\/author\/eleanor-johnson\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T11:49:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T16:49:16","slug":"eleanor-johnson","status":"publish","type":"pbauthor","link":"https:\/\/www.publicbooks.org\/author\/eleanor-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"Eleanor Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eleanor Johnson edits the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicbooks.org\/section\/poetry\/\">Poetry section<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0<em>Public Books<\/em>. A professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University, she is the author of <em>Practicing Literary Theory in the Middle Ages<\/em>\u00a0(University of Chicago Press, 2013),\u00a0<em>Staging Contemplation: Participatory Theology in Middle English Prose, Verse, and Drama<\/em>\u00a0(University of Chicago Press, 2018), and\u00a0<em>Waste and the Wasters: Poetry and Ecosystemic Thought in Medieval England\u00a0<\/em>(University of Chicago, 2023), and two collections of poetry,\u00a0<em>The Dwell<\/em>\u00a0(Scrambler, 2009) and\u00a0<em>Her Many Feathered Bones<\/em>\u00a0(Achiote, 2010).\u00a0Her book on horror and feminism, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simonandschuster.com\/books\/Scream-with-Me\/Eleanor-Johnson\/9781668087633\"><em>Scream with Me<\/em><\/a>, was published by Atria Books in September 2025.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_58954\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-58954\" style=\"width: 265px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-58954\" src=\"https:\/\/www.publicbooks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Scream-with-Me.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"265\" height=\"400\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-58954\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Preorder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simonandschuster.com\/books\/Scream-with-Me\/Eleanor-Johnson\/9781668087633\">SCREAM WITH ME<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":28299,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3562","pbauthor","type-pbauthor","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Eleanor Johnson - Public Books<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Eleanor Johnson edits the\u00a0Poetry section\u00a0of\u00a0Public Books. 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