David E. Johnson joined the faculty of Comparative Literature in fall 2001. Professor Johnson did his doctoral studies in the University at Buffalo's English Department. Before moving into the Department of Comparative Literature he taught in the Departments of English, Modern Languages & Literatures, and the Center for the Americas. He is the co-editor of Border Theory: The Limits of Cultural Politics (Minnesota, 1997) and of the award winning theoretical Americas journal, CR: The New Centennial Review.

David Johnson recently completed Anthropology's Wake, a manuscript devoted to anthropology's three principal methodological metaphors and beginning work on a monograph about Mexican essayist and novelist Juan García Ponce. He has published essays in, among other journals, American Literary History, Arizona Quarterly, Chasqui, Diacritics, Discourse, and Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses. His research and teaching focus on the relations between anthropology, literature, and philosophy with particular interest in modern philosophy and 20th-century Latin American literary and cultural discourse.