Visiting Instructor of Spanish
B.A., Aquinas College; M.A., University of New Mexico; PhD, University of Miami
sgjohnso@sewanee.edu
Samuel Johnson is a PhD candidate in the Literary, Cultural, and Linguistic Studies program in the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Miami. He has taught Spanish and Portuguese language courses for over decade to second language learners and is currently a faculty member at St. Andrew’s Sewanee School. Beyond second language teaching, his research interests include ecocriticism, climate change, Indigenous peoples, multispecies justice, coloniality, and the intersections of these themes in literature, film, and new media in Latin America. His dissertation, "Amazonian Transmedia: Seeking Epistemic and Ecological Justice in the Anthropocene" traces the role of literary, film, and media production emerging from the transnational, intercultural space of the Amazon that preserves, shares, and uplifts of Indigenous ways of knowing and being while seeking justice for the multispecies communities of the Americas.
