Julie Townsend Ph.D.

Julie Townsend’s interests include interdisciplinary humanities, dance studies, movement pedagogy, nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and visual art, and critical theory. She is most at home making connections between the literary, visual, and performing arts with students in seminar-style classes.

For Professor Townsend, “The Johnston community is a hub of creative, intellectual, and activist work. It’s a great place to live and learn.” In addition to teaching in Johnston, she works collaboratively with first-generation programs to support the STEP peer-mentoring program and serves as the Fulbright Program advisor for the College of Arts and Sciences.

• B.A., English and American literature, University of California, San Diego
• Ph.D., comparative literature, University of California, Los Angeles

• Professor, interdisciplinary humanities, Johnston Center for Integrative Studies, University of Redlands
• Lecturer, writing across the curriculum, University of Southern California
• Instructor, Summer Bridge Transfer Program, University of California, Los Angeles
• Instructor, humanities and French language, University of California, Los Angeles

• Townsend, Julie. “A Place to Practice: Incivility, Curriculum, and Institutional Intelligence.” Co-authored with Tim Seiber. Journal of School and Society 5 (1) (2018): 54–66.
• Townsend, Julie. “Un-fixing Baker: Against a Criticism of Stasis.” Modernist Cultures. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, May 2014.
• Townsend, Julie. “Autobiography and the Coulisses: Narrator, Dancer, Spectator.” In Emerging Bodies: The Performance of Worldmaking in Dance and Choreography, edited by Gabriele Klein and Sandra Noeth. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2011.
• Townsend, Julie. The Choreography of Modernism: La Danseuse, 1830–1930. Research Monographs in French Studies. Oxford: Legenda Press, 2010; republished London: Routledge, 2020.
• Townsend, Julie, and Kim Middleton. “Tenuous Arrangements: The Ethics of Rape in Disgrace.” In Saving Disgrace, edited by Bill McDonald. Camden, NJ: Camden Press, 2009.
• Townsend, Julie. “Staking Salomé: The Literary Forefathers and Choreographic Daughters of Wilde’s ‘Hysterical and Perverted Creature.’” In Oscar Wilde and Modern Culture: The Making of a Legend, edited by Joseph Bristow. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2008.

• Outstanding Service Award, University of Redlands
• Innovative Teaching Award, University of Redlands