Michael Johnson

Professor Johnson teaches courses in American literature, film studies, multicultural literature, and African American literature. Recent courses include African American Literature and Culture, Popular Genres, The Splendid Drunken Twenties, and A History of the Horror Film. He also claims to be the English Department’s resident expert on surviving the Zombie Apocalypse. His book publications include “Can’t Stand Still: Taylor Gordon and the Harlem Renaissance,” “A Black Woman’s West: The Life of Rose B. Gordon,” and “Speculative Wests: Popular Representations of a Region and a Genre.” He is also a co-editor of two anthologies of criticism: “Weird Westerns: Race, Gender, Genre,” and “Hell-Bent for Leather: Sex and Sexuality in the Weird Western.”