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LATIN AMERICANIST FACULTY

Name: Sara E. Johnson
Assistant Professor, Literature

Field of Expertise: Sara Johnson's research interests include Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Anglophone, Francophone and Hispanophone Caribbean literature and theory; African-American literature; Literature of the Americas; and Cultural studies of the African Diaspora.

Region of Interest:Pan-Caribbean, Haiti, Pacific Region

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Selected Publications:

  • Kaiso! Writings By and About Katherine Dunham. Co-edited with VeVe Clark. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, Studies in Dance History Series. Forthcoming 2005.
  • "Cinquillo Consciousness: The Formation of a Pan-Caribbean Musical Aesthetic." Literature, Music and Caribbean Unity. Ed. Tim Reiss. Trenton: Africa World Press (2005): 37-58.
  • "The Integration of Hispaniola: A Reappraisal of Haitian-Dominican Relations in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries." Journal of Haitian Studies Vol. 8 No. 2 (Fall 2002): 4-29.