Johanna L Church (she/her)


Professor College of Arts & Sciences Department of Humanities Providence

Education

PhD, Drew University
Irish Literature

MA, Drew University
Literature

MA, Seton Hall University
English

BA, Coastal Carolina University
English

CITI Program

Society for Cinema and Media Studies

Popular Culture Association

Modern Language Association

Modern Language Association

Popular Culture Association

Popular Culture Association

Church, J. (February 15, 2023). “#Supercorp Kissed…or Did They?: Lesbian Fandom and Queerbaiting”. (Journal Article).
Journal of Lesbian Studies, 27(1).

Church, J. (March 6, 2020). “Supergirl and Lena Luthor: Constructing Public and Private Personas”: Girl of Steel: Essays on Television’s Supergirl and Fourth-Wave Feminism. (Book Chapter).
McFarland Press, 65-81.

Church, J. (October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 5, 2017). Review of The 10 Cent War: Comics, Propaganda, and World War II,. (Book Review).
Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics.

Church, J. (November 9, 2016). “Literary Representations Of Shell Shock As A Result Of World War I In The Works Of Virginia Woolf And Ernest Hemingway.”. (Journal Article).
Peace & Change, 41(1), 52-63.

Church, J. (2013). “Fibber McGee and Molly: Irish Assimilation in the Radio Dramas/Comedies from the 1930’s through the 1950’s.”. (Journal Article).
The Institute for the Study of American Popular Culture.

National Popular Culture Association Conference, “Fear and Monsters in Stephen King’s IT and James Tynion IV’s Something is Killing the Children,,” Popular Culture Association, New Orleans, LA, United States. (April 17, 2025).

Lesbian Lives Conference 2024: Global Connections: Solidarities, Communities, Networks and Activisms, “Who am I? What am I? Intersex Representations in Film and Television,” Brighton, United Kingdom. (March 22, 2024).

National Popular Culture Association Conference, “Welcome to the ‘Ministry Without Christ’: a historical and psychoanalytic analysis of Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood and Charles Laughton’s Night of the Hunter,”. (April 13, 2022).

25th International Lesbian Lives Conference, ““#Supercorp Kissed or Did They? Lesbian Fandom and Queerbaiting,” Cork, Ireland. (March 3, 2022).

Popular Culture Association’s National Conference, ““Women are Doing It For Themselves: Progressive Representations of Female Friendship in The Women, The Mad Miss Manton and Ocean’s 8.”,”. (June 2, 2021).

Film & History Annual Conference, ““From Russia, With Love: Interrogating Marriage, Gender and the American Family on FX’s The Americans.”,” Milwaulkee, WI, United States. (November, 2017).