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Email: sejohn@ucsd.edu
Affiliated Faculty for Department of Ethnic Studies
Research and teaching areas include nineteenth- and twentieth-century Anglophone, Francophone and Hispanophone Caribbean literature and theory; inter-American studies; African-American literature and cultural studies of the African Diaspora
Sara Johnson received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Stanford University and her B.A. in Comparative Literature and African American Studies from Yale University. Her current book manuscript explores the culture legacy of the Haitian Revolution in the extended Americas. She is the co-editor of Kaiso! Writings By and About Katherine Dunham (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, Studies in Dance History Series, 2006), which was named one of the top ten arts books of 2006. She has performed extensive research abroad, living in Senegal, Cuba, Haiti and Martinique. Recent fellowships include those from the Ford Foundation, the University of California President’s Postdoctoral Program, the Library Company of Philadelphia and the Hellman Fund. Her research and teaching areas include nineteenth- and twentieth-century Anglophone, Francophone and Hispanophone Caribbean literature and theory; inter-American studies; African-American literature and cultural studies of the African Diaspora.
Selected Publications:
Books
Una ventana a Cuba y los Estudios cubanos. Co-edited with Amalia Cabezas, Ivette Hernández-Torres and Rodrigo Lazo. San Juan: Ediciones Callejon, Forthcoming spring 2010.
Kaiso! Writings By and About Katherine Dunham. Co-edited with VeVe Clark. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006.
Articles
"Page to Praxis: Bringing Diaspora Literacy to Life." Theatre Survey Volume 50.1 (May 2009): 19-22.
"You Should Give them Blacks to Eat": Cuban Bloodhounds and the Waging of an Inter-American War of Torture and Terror. American Quarterly Vol. 61.1 (March 2009): 65-92.
"Cinquillo Consciousness: The Formation of a Pan-Caribbean Musical Aesthetic."Music, Writing and Caribbean Unity. Ed. Tim Reiss. Trenton: Africa World Press (2005): 35-58.
"The Integration of Hispaniola: A Reappraisal of Haitian-Dominican Relations in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries."Journal of Haitian Studies Vol. 8 No. 2 (Fall 2002): 4-29.
Selected Courses:
Comparative Caribbean Discourse
Transcolonial American Studies
La narrativa cubana
Comparative American Slavery in the Age of Revolution
Inter-American Prose
La isla que se repite
Revolutionary Art: Cuban Popular Culture Since 1959