Johanna Stuckey received her B.A. and M.A. from University of Toronto, and, in 1965, her Ph.D. from Yale University. She is currently University Professor Emerita at York University in Toronto, Canada. She is a retired member of York's interdisciplinary Division of Humanities and Programmes in Women's Studies and Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts, and of the Programmes in Women's Studies and Interdisciplinary M.A. in the Faculty of Graduate Studies. She has also taught Continuing Education courses on goddessess and goddess worship at the University of Toronto.

Johanna has a reading knowledge of French, German, Italian, Latin, Classical Greek, and Biblical Hebrew. She is the author of numerous learned articles, papers, book reviews, and a text book on feminist spirituality. She is at present working on another book, tentatively entitled Goddesses and 'Dying Gods' and on a text book on ancient goddesses and their worship. Her courses have been popular with students of all ages, and she has appeared often on television and radio. The American Academy of Religion, in an effort to connect more broadly with the media, recently compiled a list for journalists of 5000 religious-studies scholars from all over North America. Johanna Stuckey is one of the first on their list of goddess scholars.