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- Rice University Program For Communication Excellence
Lisa Johnston
Education:
B.A. (1984) Rollins College
M.S. (1986) University of Texas at Austin
Ph.D. (1992) University of Texas at Austin
Lisa Bassett Johnston has experience teaching first-year rhetoric and composition as well as upper-level undergraduate and graduate technical communication courses. Before coming to Rice, she served as an assistant dean at Southern Methodist University where she worked closely with students, advising and speaking to groups about academic requirements.
In her writing courses, students explore communication strategies through class discussion, readings, oral presentations, collaborative projects, and peer reviewed writing assignments.
She enjoys creative writing and has published seven books for children, including a biography of Lewis Carroll that developed from her undergraduate honors thesis.
Her dissertation, "Forms of Things Unknown: Fantasy Illustration in published Texts of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1837-1914," investigates the ways in which illustrations of popular Victorian and Edwardian editions of A Midsummer Night's Dream present critical and cultural assumptions in visual terms.
Beany Wakes Up for Christmas (1988)
Story by Lisa Bassett
Pictures by Jeni Bassett
Jeni Bassett delights in real animals as much as she does in drawing them, and often gets new ideas from sketching her pets. Her rabbit family inspired the bunnies cavorting through the first books she illustrated, "Bunches and Bunches of Bunnies". Since then her whimsical animal characters have appeared in "Gator Pie", "The Great Take-Away", "Cluck One", and other titles. She and her sister, Lisa, created Beany Bear and Scamp Squirrel for "A Clock for Beany" and "Beany and Scamp".
Jeni has studied art at her mother's Art Workshop in Winter Park, Florida, since she was a youngster. She and her husband live in Winter Park.
Lisa Bassett and her sister, Jeni, grew up in Winter Park, Florida, where "there are a number of inspiring squirrels but very few bears". Lisa graduated with honors in English from Rollins College and had an M.A. in English from The University of Texas at Austin where she teaches English. In addition to the Beany and Scamp stories, she is the author of "Very Truly Yours, Charles L. Dodgson, Alias Lewis Carroll".
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