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 17th-19th centuries.
Publications
2024 “Burning Charity” and Love for One’s Neighbor: Reformed Social Imaginaries of Charity and the Common Good in Eighteenth-century Spain and New Spain,” Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 57, Number 2, Winter 2024, pp. 193-214.
2023 “Profane Bodies: The Shifting Conceptions of the Sacred and the Profane in the Spanish Atlantic Enlightenment,” Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies: Vol. 48 : Iss. 1, Article 3, pp. 76-100.
2021 Embodiment and Affect in Devotional Conflicts of the Spanish Atlantic (work in progress)
2021 “‘The Burning Charity of Our Ancestors’: Social Imaginaries and Confraternal Reform in Eighteenth-century Spanish Catholicism” (expected Fall 2023, Journal of Eighteenth-Century Studies)
2015 “Sor Maria Gertrudis and Her Cross: The Burden of Doubt in the Poetry of an Eighteenth-century Nun,” Dieciocho: Hispanic Enlightenment 38:1 (2015), 83-102.
2015 “‘Equal Portions of Heavenly Fire’: Mary Wollstonecraft and the Sexless Soul,” Religion in the Age of Enlightenment, Vol. 5 (2015), 55-96.