Dr. Johnson has worked full-time as an instructional consultant at Penn State since 1996. He has held positions of program coordinator, associate director, and research associate at two teaching centers. He is co-author of The Penn State Teacher II and has published on multicultural teaching and tutor preparation. From 2004 to 2006, he represented Penn State on a three-year American Association of Higher Education/Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching team investigating the scholarship of multicultural teaching and learning. His other current research interests include the effectiveness of various kinds of instructor interventions and writing across the curriculum.

Dr. Johnson holds a Ph.D. in English from Penn State and B.A and M.A. degrees in English from the University of South Carolina. His research involves the socio-political analysis of 20th-century and contemporary comic novels.

Dr. Johnson’s undergraduate teaching includes first-year composition, technical writing, and writing intensive literature courses. He has also taught College Teaching, a higher education course for graduate students of all disciplines, the non-credit Penn State Course in College Teaching offered by the Institute, and numerous other short courses and workshops for faculty and future faculty.

In the 2000-2001 academic year, Dr. Johnson served as chair of the Penn State Commission on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Equity.