Brendan Johnston

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Office Hours
M 12:00-1:00PM, R 4:00-5:30 in Person; and by appointment on Zoom
Bio

Research Areas:

Writing Studies and Pedagogy; Science and Technology Studies; Materialism (historical and scientific); Decolonial Studies; Film and Media Studies; Modernism and Poetics; Transnational American Literature; Literature and the Environment; Diversity in Higher Education (curriculum and access).

Teaching Areas:

Advanced Composition; Writing in the Health Sciences; Writing and Film; Writing and the Environment; Science and Technology Studies; Humanities; Literature

Education:

2021    Ph.D.in English, University of Nevada, Reno, NV (Defended April 23)  

2012    M. A. in English with a Certificate in Teaching College Composition, California State University, Sacramento, CA

2004    TEFL Certificate, Via Lingua School of English, Chania, Crete, Greece                            

2002    B.A. in English, Minor in Classics, Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan  

Publications: 

Peer-Reviewed Publications:

"Diffractive Poetics in William Carlos Williams’s Paterson.” Chapter in edited collection: Diffractive Reading: New Materialism, Theory and Critique. London: Rowman and Littlefield International. Published May 27, 2021. Diffractive Reading: New Materialism, Theory, Critique - 9781786613967 (rowman.com)

“Introduction” to Ethics After Poststructuralism: A Critical Reader. Coauthored with Lee Olsen.  Jefferson, NC: McFarland Books, 2020. https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/ethics-after-poststructuralism/

Peer-Reviewed Edited Collections:

Ethics After Poststructuralism: A Critical Reader. Co-Editor with Ann Keniston and Lee Olsen. Jefferson, NC: McFarland Books, 2020. https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/ethics-after-poststructuralism/

Other Publications:

“Social Distancing, Emmanuel Levinas, and the Other.” Humanities Heart-to-Heart Series. Nevada Humanities. September 2020. https://www.nevadahumanities.org/heart-to-heart/2020/9/28/social-distancing-emmanuel-levinas-and-the-other

Research Interests & Expertise
  • Writing Studies and Pedagogy; Science and Technology Studies; Materialism (historical and scientific); Decolonial Studies; Film and Media Studies; Modernism and Poetics;
  • Transnational American Literature; Literature and the Environment; Diversity in Higher Education (curriculum and access).