B. Johnson
Associate Professor
- B.A. Honours, M.A.(Manitoba), Ph.D. (Dalhousie)
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Research Interests
- Genre
- Literary Theory
- Comics
- Tarot
- Canadian Literature
Selected Publications
“A Canadian Caliban in King Arthur’s Court: Materialist Medievalism and Northern Gothic in William Wilfred Campbell’s Mordred.” English Canadian Medievalism: Romance and Allegory. Eds. Anna Czarnowus and Jane Toswell. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2020. 66-82.
“Materialist Medievalism and Imperial Fantasy: William Wilfred Campbell’s Gothic North.” Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Reviews 84/85 (2019): 31-54.
“‘The Strangeness of My Heritage:’ Lovecraft’s Poe and the Anxiety of Influence.” The Lovecraftian Poe: Essays on Influence, Reception, Interpretation, and Transformation. Ed. Sean Moreland. Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press, 2017. 1-25.
“Prehistories of Posthumanism: Cosmic Indifferentism, Ecology, and Alien Genesis from H.P. Lovecraft to Ridley Scott.” The Age of Lovecraft: Cosmic Horror, Posthumanism, and Popular Culture. Eds. Jeffrey Weinstock and Carl H. Sederholm. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016. 97-116.
“The Infinite Grail-Quest of Samuel R. Delany’s Nova: Romance, Science Fiction, and the (Post-) Modern Tarot.” Tarot in Culture. Ed. Emily E. Auger. Valleyhome Books, 2014.
“Canadian Psycho: Genre, Nation, and Colonial Violence in Michael Slade’s PsychoThrillers.” Crime Fiction Canada: Essays on Canadian Crime Fiction, Television, and Film. Eds. Jeannette Sloniowski and Marilyn Rose. Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier UP, 2014. 55-82.
“Beyond the Lure: Teaching Horror, Teaching Theory.” Fear and Learning: Essays on the Pedagogy of Horror. Eds. Aalya Ahmad and Sean Moreland. Jefferson, NC: McFarland: 2013. 95-123.
Co-Authored with Jennifer Henderson. “Maddin, Melodrama, and the Pre-National.” Double Takes: Intersections Between Canadian Literature and Film. Ottawa: U of Ottawa P. 2013. 77-93.
“Son of a Smaller (Super)Hero: Ethnicity, Comic Books, and Secret Identity in Richler’s Novels of Apprenticeship.” Canadian Literature 207 (2010): 26-40.
“How To Build a Haunted Nation: The ‘Cheerful Ghosts’ of Robertson Davies’ High Spirits.” University of Toronto Quarterly. 78.4 (2009): 1012-28.
“Viking Graves Revisited: Pre-Colonial Primitivism in Farley Mowat’s Northern Gothic.” Unsettled Remains: Canadian Literature and the Postcolonial Gothic. Eds. Cynthia Sugars and Gerry Turcotte. Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier Press. 2009. 23-50. Reprint.
“Beyond Regionalism: Wild Geese and the Northern Nation.” West of Eden: Essays on Canadian Prairie Literature. Ed. Sue Sorensen. Winnipeg: CMU Press, 2008. 125-42.
“National Species: Ecology, Allegory, and Indigeneity in the Wolf Stories of Roberts, Seton, and Mowat.” Other Selves: Animals in the Canadian Literary Imagination. Ed. Janice Fiamengo. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2007. 333-52.