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Selected Publications<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA Canadian Caliban in King Arthur\u2019s Court: Materialist Medievalism and Northern Gothic in William Wilfred Campbell\u2019s Mordred.<\/a>\u201d English Canadian Medievalism: Romance and Allegory. Eds. Anna Czarnowus and Jane Toswell. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2020. 66-82.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMaterialist Medievalism and Imperial Fantasy: William Wilfred Campbell\u2019s Gothic North.<\/a>\u201d Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Reviews<\/em> 84\/85 (2019): 31-54.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018The Strangeness of My Heritage:\u2019 Lovecraft’s Poe and the Anxiety of Influence.<\/a>\u201d The Lovecraftian Poe: Essays on Influence, Reception, Interpretation, and Transformation. Ed. Sean Moreland. Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press, 2017. 1-25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPrehistories of Posthumanism: Cosmic Indifferentism, Ecology, and Alien Genesis from H.P. Lovecraft to Ridley Scott.<\/a>\u201d 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Infinite Grail-Quest of Samuel R. Delany\u2019s Nova: Romance, Science Fiction, and the (Post-) Modern Tarot.<\/a>\u201d Tarot in Culture. Ed. Emily E. Auger. Valleyhome Books, 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCanadian Psycho: Genre, Nation, and Colonial Violence in Michael Slade\u2019s PsychoThrillers.<\/a>\u201d Crime Fiction Canada: Essays on Canadian Crime Fiction, Television, and Film. Eds. Jeannette Sloniowski and Marilyn Rose. Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier UP, 2014. 55-82.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBeyond the Lure: Teaching Horror, Teaching Theory.<\/a>\u201d Fear and Learning: Essays on the Pedagogy of Horror. Eds. Aalya Ahmad and Sean Moreland. Jefferson, NC: McFarland: 2013. 95-123.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Co-Authored with Jennifer Henderson. \u201cMaddin, Melodrama, and the Pre-National.<\/a>\u201d Double Takes: Intersections Between Canadian Literature and Film. Ottawa: U of Ottawa P. 2013. 77-93.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSon of a Smaller (Super)Hero: Ethnicity, Comic Books, and Secret Identity in Richler\u2019s Novels of Apprenticeship.<\/a>\u201d Canadian Literature 207 (2010): 26-40.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHow To Build a Haunted Nation: The \u2018Cheerful Ghosts\u2019 of Robertson Davies\u2019 High Spirits.<\/a>\u201d University of Toronto Quarterly. 78.4 (2009): 1012-28.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cViking Graves Revisited: Pre-Colonial Primitivism in Farley Mowat\u2019s Northern Gothic.<\/a>\u201d Unsettled Remains: Canadian Literature and the Postcolonial Gothic. Eds. Cynthia Sugars and Gerry Turcotte. Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier Press. 2009. 23-50. Reprint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBeyond Regionalism: Wild Geese and the Northern Nation.<\/a>\u201d West of Eden: Essays on Canadian Prairie Literature. Ed. Sue Sorensen. Winnipeg: CMU Press, 2008. 125-42. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNational Species: Ecology, Allegory, and Indigeneity in the Wolf Stories of Roberts, Seton, and Mowat.<\/a>\u201d Other Selves: Animals in the Canadian Literary Imagination. Ed. Janice Fiamengo. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2007. 333-52.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27578,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"B.","cu_people_last_name":"Johnson","cu_people_initials":"BJ","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[22],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-327","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-professors"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Associate Professor - Genre; Literary Theory; Comics; Tarot; Canadian Literature","cu_people_degree":"B.A. Honours, M.A.(Manitoba), Ph.D. (Dalhousie)","cu_building":"","cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"brianjohnson@cunet.carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28060,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/327\/revisions\/28060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}