Visiting Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Email: johnke@gvsu.edu
Phone: (616) 331-8225
Office: 213 Lake Ontario Hall

Education:

• PhD, Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, University Oregon State University, 2021
• MA, Women's and Gender Studies, Eastern Michigan University, 2016
• BA, Cultural Anthropology, Michigan State University, 2008

Classes:

Dr. Johnk teaches WGS 491:Contemporary Theory and Practicum  WGS 255: Gender and Popular Culture, WGS 200: Introduction to Gender Studies,  and WGS 224: Introduction to LGBTQ Studies.

Research interests: 

Lzz's research analyzes genealogies of Disability Studies and Mad Studies, particularly through women of color feminist frameworks which complicate and diverge from eurowestern understandings of disability, illness, and neurodivergence. They are also interested in the ways that Black Studies, Native Studies, and women of color feminist scholarship-activisms critically interrogate eurowestern Enlightenment concepts, such as "the self" and "the human." They are currently working on a book manuscript based on their dissertation, which engages the works of Audre Lorde, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Maxine Hong Kingston as genealogical roots of Disability Studies and Mad Studies. Additionally, their research interests venture into the realms of dreams and other alter-realities. 

 

Scholarly Achievements and Publications:

Forthcoming: Miller, Gabrielle and Lzz Johnk. “Madness/Disability and Antiheroism: Reading Madly and Blackly as Method/ology.” In Superheroes in Film and Television, edited by Jay Ingrao. Amherst, MA: Amherst College Press, 2022.

Johnk, Lzz. “Review: Soldiering through Empire: Race and the Making of the Decolonizing Pacific, by Simeon Man.” Ethnic Studies Review 43.3 (2020): 22–126.

Johnk, Lzz and Sasha A. Khan. “‘Cripping the Fuck Out:’ A Queer Crip Mad Manifesta Against the Medical Industrial Complex.” Feral Feminisms 9 (2019). https://feralfeminisms.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/4-Johnk-and-Khan.pdf

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