3034 JFSB - Brigham Young University 701 E University PKWY Provo, Utah 84602
Biography
Dr. Rachael Givens Johnson is an assistant professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities. She received her Ph.D in history from the University of Virginia and focuses on themes of religious materialism, embodiment, and transatlantic cultural history, particularly peninsular and viceregal Spain, in the early modern period.
Research Interests
I am currently working on a monograph tracking the changing models of the human sensorium in the Spanish Enlightenment and how these shifts affected devotional practices regarding physical images and mental imagery, processions and sensory technologies, and notions of subjectivity/intersubjectivity. I am also working on a project relating to late-nineteenth-century transatlantic discussions on the self-conscious construction of a "modern religion" and the multivalent understandings of "materialism."
Teaching Interests
Latin American Humanities; Humanities and the Sacred; Renaissance and Reformation; Early Modern European Intellectual, Social, and Cultural History; Baroque and Enlightened Catholicism; embodiment and emotion
