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• PhD Yale University, 1992
• BA in English Literature & Latin Literature Oberlin College, 1978
• M.A. Greek Literature University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1981

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1.  Ancient Literacies: The Culture of Reading in Greece and Rome.  edited by W.A. Johnson & Holt Parker. Oxford University Press, January, January, 2009.
2. W.A. Johnson. Bookrolls and Scribes in Oxyrhynchus.  University of Toronto Press, 2004.
3. W.A. Johnson. "The Ancient Book." The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology. Edited by Roger Bagnall.  Oxford University Press (2009).
4. W.A. Johnson. "Hesiod's Theogony: Reading the Proem as a Priamel." Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies  vol. 46  (2008): 231-235.
5. W.A. Johnson. "The Story of the Papyri of the Villa dei Papiri." Journal of Roman Archaeology  vol. 19  (2006): 493-496. (Essay and review of David Sider, The Library of the Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum (Getty, 2005).)
6. W.A. Johnson. "The Posidippus Papyrus: Bookroll and Reader." The New Posidippus: A Hellenistic Poetry Book. Edited by Kathryn Gutzwiller.  Oxford University Press (2005).
7. W.A. Johnson. "Reading cultures and education." Reading Between the Lines: New Perspectives on Foreign Language Literacies. Edited by P. Patrikis.  Yale University Press (2002).
8. W.A. Johnson. "Toward a sociology of reading in classical antiquity." American Journal of Philology  vol. 121  (2000): 593-627. (Appeared 2001. Winner of the 2000 Gildersleeve Prize.)
9. W.A. Johnson. "Musical Evenings in the Early Empire: New Evidence from a Greek Papyrus with Musical Notation." Journal of Hellenic Studies  vol. 120  (2000): 57-85.
10. W.A. Johnson. "Dramatic Frame and Philosophic Idea in Plato." The American Journal of Philology  vol. 119  (1998): 577-598.
11. W.A. Johnson. "Oral Performance and the Composition of Herodotus' Histories." Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies  vol. 35  (1994): 229-254. (appeared Fall 1995)