Ronna C. Johnson
Ronna C. Johnson is a Professor of English at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts. Johnson is an established authority on the Beat Generation. She has worked as a fiction editor for "ASPECT" magazine, Zephyr Press, and "Dark Horse" magazine. She is also the co-editor of the "Journal of Beat Studies" published by Pace University Press, a founding board member of the Beat Studies Association, and the co-editor of the Beat Studies book series published by Clemson University Press/Liverpool University Press. Education. Johnson received her B.A. from Boston University College of Arts and Sciences, graduating  magna cum laude. She then went on to receive her M.A. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She received her Ph.D. from Tufts University, and in 1984 was nominated for the University Microfilms International Distinguished Dissertation Award for her Doctoral Thesis, "Jack Kerouac's Art: The Artist as Literary Hero in The Duluoz Legend."