Eleanor Johnson

Eleanor Johnson is a assistant professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.

Eleanor Johnson is a assistant professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She specializes in late medieval English prose, poetry, and drama; medieval poetics and literary philosophy; law and literature in the Middle Ages; and vernacular theology.


A detail from Stanisław Wyspiański’s “Macierzynstwo” (1905).

The backwards history of attitudes toward public breastfeeding

Lifestyle

Why is there still a debate about it? We’re talking about who gets to have a life away from the home.