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<div class="">Kimberly, thank you for sending us the Waves quote which captures the unspeakable shock of Georgia’s loss. </div>
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<div class=""><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT" class="">I keep thinking of the book that she was writing and her desire to finish it. In spring 2014 she won a Fulbright and spent the following year in London at Birkbeck College, working on her monograph titled “Gender
as Textuality: A Modernist Methodology.” This work in progress sought to put literature into conversation with early twentieth century social science.</font><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;" class=""> It’s so painful to think not only of the loss
of Georgia, but of her unwritten monograph—all those thoughts and ideas now gone, unrealized. </span></div>
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<div class=""><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;" class="">She was such a gracious colleague over the years and she and I often talked about ways to </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;" class="">broaden the visibility of literature
by </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;" class="">women modernists. She conceived of </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;" class="">a possible annual conference on early </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;" class="">20th-century
women writers, which she thought should be held at Saint Louis </span><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT" class="">University in 2017—but then she got too sick to follow through on this fine idea. </font></div>
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<div class=""><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT" class="">I think we honor her by finishing our writing projects and remembering her tireless generosity of spirit. </font></div>
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<div class=""><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;" class="">With warmest wishes and condolences to all who knew Georgia. </span></div>
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<div class=""><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 16px;" class="">“Georgia Johnston ame to SLU in 1992 after graduating with a doctorate in British literature from Rutgers University in New Jersey. She was an internationally recognized
scholar of Modern British Literature, specializing in the intersections between women’s writing, psychoanalysis, and constructions of gender. In addition to her work on behalf of the Department of English, Georgia was a tireless advocate for Women’s and Gender
Studies at SLU. She served as the Women’s Studies Program’s director for two years, and mentored many undergraduate and graduate students engaged in the study of gender and literature. Georgia was an exceptional teacher, completely committed to her students
and to the subjects she taught with passion and intelligence. She was a particularly effective mentor for English graduate students. She was recognized by the Department’s graduate students 5 years ago when she received the student award for Outstanding
Faculty Mentor. Georgia has served the University in many other capacities as well, including Interim English Department Chair in 1999, and most recently, Coordinator of Graduate Studies in English. </span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 16px;" class="">She
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;" class="">Oh my god. I am so deeply saddened. Georgia was a generous scholar and colleague and a beautiful, gentle, warm human being. She was interested, as Gill has said, in everyone. And where you taught,
who you were, what you had or had not done never mattered to her. She was always, always warm and welcoming. I had a wonderful conversation with her after a panel I was on at the Woolf Conference a few years back. Such a loss for we as a community of Woolf
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;" class="">I am heartbroken. I had no idea she was ill. I’m teaching<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">The Waves</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>this week to a terrific
group of upper division undergraduates, and I shall be thinking of Georgia as we continue our discussion: “But for pain words are lacking. There should be cries, cracks, fissures, whiteness passing over chintz covers, interference with the sense of time, of
space; the sense also of extreme fixity in passing objects; and sounds very remote and then very close; flesh being gashed and blood spurting, a joint suddenly twisted—beneath all of which appears something very important, yet remote, to be just held in solitude”
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Terrible news. Georgia was such a steady, thoughtful and generous person. She was interested in everyone and wrote so beautifully. I think of her as calm, composed and without egotism. I also recall her dry sense of humour.<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">It is with deep sorrow that the I share with you the news that Georgia Johnston has passed away after a long battle with cancer. In the Woolf community, she will be remembered as a brilliant, generous scholar and
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