Title: Director of Writing
University: University of Miami
Email: jsjohnson@miami.edu
Description of your work
Joanna Johnson, Ph.D., is Director of Writing in the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Miami (UM). She directs the undergraduate academic writing curriculum as well as providing grant and other writing support for faculty, post-doctoral fellows, and graduate students in all disciplines university-wide. Johnson has contributed to writing texts including Composing Inquiry: Methods and Readings for Investigation and Writing (2009) and published articles in edited collections on spatial approaches to literature, writing and geography. She has recently published a single-authored book, Topographies of Caribbean Writing, Race, and the British Countryside (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019). Her publication and research interests include rhetoric and health, scientific and engineering communication, and writing in other STEM disciplines. She regularly contributes to the responsible conduct of research (RCR) training for graduates and post-doctoral fellows at UM, an initiative for which she won an Association of Medical Colleges award in 2017. Most recently, she was awarded for her work on the role of writing in the responsible conduct of research and replicability at the World Conference on Research Integrity, Hong Kong 2019.