:: Professor & Chair
:: Office: 638 Clemens Hall
:: Office Hours: By appt.
:: Phone: 645-0854

:: E-mail: dj@buffalo.edu

David Johnson joined the faculty of Comparative Literature in 2001. He is the author of Kant’s Dog: On Borges, Philosophy, and the Time of Translation (SUNY, 2012) and co-author of Anthropology’s Wake: Attending to the End of Culture (Fordham, 2008). He is also the co-editor of Thinking With Borges (Davies Group Publishers, 2009) and of Border Theory: The Limits of Cultural Politics (Minnesota, 1997). Since 2000 he has been the co-editor of CR: The New Centennial Review.

Johnson teaches continental and Latin American philosophy, and Latin American narrative. He is currently completing two books, one devoted to sovereignty and the imagination from Aristotle to Agamben, and another on 20^th-century Mexico and the secret of culture.

Johnson is also Adjunct Professor in the Instituto de Humanidades, Universidad Diego Portales, in Santiago de Chile.