Sara JOHNSON - Ph.D. (Stanford University) Primary Office: LIT 431 Primary Phone: (858) 534-8698 (ANS MACHINE) Email: sejohn@ucsd.edu

Sara Johnson is an Assistant Professor of Literature of the Americas. She 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: Kaiso! Writings By and About Katherine Dunham. Co-edited with VeVe Clark. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006. “ 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