Honorary Professor Marguerite Johnson

Honorary Professor

School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry
Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

Overview

Marguerite Johnson is a cultural historian of the ancient Mediterranean, specialising in sexuality and gender, particularly in the poetry of Sappho, Catullus, and Ovid, as well as magical traditions in Greece, Rome, and the Near East. She also researches Classical Reception Studies, with a regular focus on Australia. In addition to ancient world studies, Marguerite is interested in sexual histories in modernity as well as magic in the west more broadly, especially the practices and art of Australian witch, Rosaleen Norton. She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

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  • Johnson, Marguerite (2023). Mansplaining with Ovid: Ars-cultus-munditia and the 'Natural' body. Body technologies in the Greco-Roman world: technosôma, gender and sex. (pp. 161-180) edited by Maria Gerolemou and Giulia Maria Chesi. Liverpool, United Kingdom: Liverpool University Press.

  • Johnson, Marguerite (2023). Warfare, violence, rape, revenge: Jane Holland’s Boudicca & CO. Revisiting rape in antiquity: sexualized violence in Greek and Roman worlds. (pp. 247-264) edited by Susan Deacy, José Malheiro Magalhães and Jean Zacharski Menzies. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Academic. doi: 10.5040/9781350099234.ch-015

  • Johnson, Marguerite (2022). A final word. Sexuality in Greek and Roman Society and Literature. (pp. 353-354) London: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003242048-327

  • Johnson, Marguerite (2022). Anxiety and repulsion. Sexuality in Greek and Roman Society and Literature. (pp. 251-270) London: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003242048-235

  • Johnson, Marguerite (2022). Beauty. Sexuality in Greek and Roman Society and Literature. (pp. 56-88) London: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003242048-29

  • Johnson, Marguerite (2022). Celebrity sex. Sexuality in Greek and Roman Society and Literature. (pp. 316-352) London: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003242048-296

  • Johnson, Marguerite (2022). Introduction. Sexuality in Greek and Roman Society and Literature. (pp. 1-22) London: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003242048-1

  • Johnson, Marguerite (2022). Marriage. Sexuality in Greek and Roman Society and Literature. (pp. 89-134) London: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003242048-71

  • Johnson, Marguerite (2022). Same-sex attraction. Sexuality in Greek and Roman Society and Literature. (pp. 166-201) London: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003242048-145

  • Johnson, Marguerite (2022). Sex aids, didactic literature and handbooks. Sexuality in Greek and Roman Society and Literature. (pp. 202-226) London: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003242048-179

  • Johnson, Marguerite (2022). Sex and violence. Sexuality in Greek and Roman Society and Literature. (pp. 227-250) London: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003242048-208

  • Johnson, Marguerite (2022). Sexual labour. Sexuality in Greek and Roman Society and Literature. (pp. 135-165) London: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003242048-111

  • Johnson, Marguerite (2022). Taboos, alterity and marginal activities. Sexuality in Greek and Roman Society and Literature. (pp. 271-315) London: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003242048-262

  • Johnson, Marguerite (2022). The divine sphere. Sexuality in Greek and Roman Society and Literature. (pp. 23-55) London: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003242048-2

  • Johnson, Marguerite (2022). "For the children": children's columns in Australian newspapers during the Great War – mythic hope, or mythic indoctrination?. Our mythical hope: the ancient myths as medicine for hardships of life in children's and young adults' culture. (pp. 145-158) edited by Katarzyna Marciniak. Warsaw, Poland: University of Warsaw Press.

  • Johnson, Marguerite (2022). Sappho and the feminist movement twentieth and twenty-first centuries. A companion to Greek lyric. (pp. 484-495) edited by Laura Swift. Hoboken, NJ United States: John Wiley and Sons. doi: 10.1002/9781119122661.ch33

  • Johnson, Marguerite (2021). Baudelaire and the classical tradition: Virgil, Ovid and Sappho in Paris. Remembering Paris in text and film. (pp. 39-58) edited by Alistair Rolls and Marguerite Johnson. Bristol, United Kingdom: Intellect Books. doi: 10.1386/9781789384185_2

  • Johnson, Marguerite (2021). Sappho in the salons. Remembering Paris in text and film. (pp. 59-76) edited by Alistair Rolls and Marguerite Johnson. Bristol, United Kingdom: Intellect Books. doi: 10.1386/9781789384185_3

  • Johnson, Marguerite (2021). Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Sapphos in France, England, and the United States. The Cambridge companion to Sappho. (pp. 361-374) edited by P. J. Finglass and Adrian Kelly. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781316986974.027

  • Johnson, Marguerite (2021). Sappho in Australia and New Zealand. The Cambridge companion to Sappho. (pp. 408-422) edited by P. J. Finglass and Adrian Kelly. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781316986974.030

  • Johnson, Marguerite (2019). Black Out: Classicizing Indigeneity in Australia and New Zealand. Antipodean antiquities. (pp. 13-28) edited by Marguerite Johnson. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Academic. doi: 10.5040/9781350021266.ch-001

  • Ewans, Michael and Johnson, Marguerite (2019). Wesley Enoch’s Black Medea. Antipodean antiquities. (pp. 73-86) edited by Marguerite Johnson. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Academic. doi: 10.5040/9781350021266.ch-005

  • Johnson, Marguerite (2019). Introduction. Antipodean antiquities: classical Reception Down Under. (pp. 1-12) edited by Marguerite Johnson. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury.

  • Johnson, Marguerite (2018). Race and Ethnicity. A cultural history of hair in Antiquity. (pp. 111-129) edited by Mary Harlow. Oxford, United Kingdom: Berg Publishing.

  • Johnson, Marguerite (2017). Radical brothers-in-arms: Gaius and Hank at the racetrack. Hip sublime: Beat writers and the classical tradition. (pp. 97-115) edited by Sheila Murnaghan and Ralph M. Rosen. Columbus, OH United States: Ohio State University Press. doi: 10.2307/j.ctt2204rr5.9

  • Benitez, Rick and Johnson, Marguerite (2016). Storytelling and authority: critical poetics in Plato’s symposium. Reflections on Plato’s poetics. (pp. 171-190) edited by Rick Benitez and Keping Wang. Berrima, NSW Australia: Academic Printing and Publishing. doi: 10.2307/j.ctv10kmfwd.17

  • Johnson, Marguerite (2014). Masculinity and femininity in the Roman world. The Oxford encyclopedia of the bible and gender studies. (pp. 523-528) edited by Julia M. O’Brien. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.

  • Tarrant, Harold and Johnson, Marguerite (2013). Introduction. Alcibiades and the Socratic Lover-educator. (pp. 1-6) edited by Marguerite Johnson and Harold Tarrant. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury.

  • Johnson, Marguerite (2013). The role of Eros in improving the pupil, or what Socrates learned from Sappho. Alcibiades and the Socratic lover-educator. (pp. 7-29) edited by Marguerite Johnson and Harold Tarrant. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury.

  • Johnson, Marguerite (2012). Away from the light: dark aspects of the goddess. Pathways in modern western magic. (pp. 87-126) edited by Nevill Drury. Richmond, CA, United States: Concresent Scholars.

  • Marguerite Johnson (2010). Sappho. The Literary Encyclopedia. (pp. 1-1) London, United Kingdom: The Literary Dictionary Company.

  • Johnson, Marguerite (2010). Marked bodies: divine, human, and bestial. A cultural history of the human body in Antiquity. (pp. 185-215) edited by Daniel Garrison. Oxford, United Kingdom: Berg Publishing.

  • Johnson, Marguerite (2009). A Reading of Sappho poem 58, fragment 31, and Mimnermus. The new Sappho on old age: textual and philosophical issues. (pp. 162-175) edited by Ellen Greene and Marilyn Skinner. Washington, DC, United States: Harvard University Press.

  • Johnson, Marguerite (2009). Apuleius. The Literary Encyclopedia. (pp. 1-1) London, United Kingdom: The Literary Dictionary Company.

  • Johnson, Marguerite (2009). Drawing down the goddess: The ancient {female} deities of modern paganism. Handbook of contemporary paganism. (pp. 311-334) edited by Murphy Pizza and James Lewis. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers. doi: 10.1163/ej.9789004163737.i-650.91

  • Johnson, Marguerite (2009). Sulpicia. The Literary Encyclopedia. (pp. 1-1) London, United Kingdom: The Literary Dictionary Company.

  • Johnson, Marguerite (2006). Crossroads. Encyclopedia of Witchcraft [4 Volumes]. (pp. 236-237) edited by Richard M. Golden. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury.

  • Johnson, Marguerite (2006). Hermeticism. Encyclopedia of witchcraft [4 Volumes] : The Western Tradition. (pp. 488-490) edited by Richard M. Golden. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury.

  • Johnson, Marguerite (2006). Lilith. Encyclopedia of Witchcraft [4 Volumes] : The Western Tradition. (pp. 651-652) edited by Richard M. Golden. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury.

  • Johnson, Marguerite (2006). Moon. Encyclopedia of Witchcraft [4 Volumes] : The Western Tradition. (pp. 781-783) edited by Richard M. Golden. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury.

  • Johnson, Marguerite (2006). Necromancy. Encyclopedia of Witchcraft [4 Volumes] : The Western Tradition. (pp. 808-809) edited by Richard M. Golden. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury.

  • Johnson, Marguerite (2006). Potions. Encyclopedia of Witchcraft [4 Volumes] : The Western Tradition. (pp. 925-926) edited by Richard M. Golden. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury.

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