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

:: E-mail: dj@acsu.buffalo.edu

David E. Johnson joined the Department of Comparative Literature in 2001.  Previously, he taught in UB’s Center for the Americas (Department of American Studies).  He earned his Ph.D. in UB’s Department of English.  Johnson is the co-editor of Border Theory:  The Limits of Cultural Politics (Minnesota 1997) and of the awarding winning theoretical journal of the Americas, CR:  The New Centennial Review (2001-present).  He also co-edited “Latin America, In Theory,” a special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly (SAQ 2007). He is the co-author of Anthropology’s Wake:  Attending to the End of Culture (Fordham 2008), a critical account of anthropology’s post-Writing Culture methodological metaphors (affect, dialogue, hybridity/family resemblance).  His co-edited collection, Thinking With Borges, will appear in 2009 (The Davies Group).

Johnson is currently completing a book manuscript provisionally titled “Kant’s Dog:  On Borges, Philosophy, and Time”; as well as beginning work on a manuscript devoted to time, the promise, and the structure of sovereignty, which has the working title, “Promises of Sovereignty:  From Aristotle to Agamben.”  Johnson teaches courses on Latin American literature and philosophy, and continental philosophy.