Martin L Johnson
Martin L. Johnson is an assistant professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Main Street Movies: The History of Local Film in the United States (Indiana, 2018), and has published journal articles in Film History, Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television, Early Popular Visual Culture, and The Moving Image.
Research Interests
Aesthetics | American Literature to 1900 to the present | Critical Race Studies | Critical Theory and Cultural Studies | Digital Humanities | Feminist Historiography | Feminist Theory And Gender & Sexuality Studies | Film and Media Studies | Genre Theory | History of the Book | Media Studies | Performance Studies | Post-Colonial Literature and Theory | Posthumanism | Queer Theory | Visual Culture and Arts
Education
2012 Ph.D., New York University, Cinema Studies.
Dissertation title: “Main Street Movies: Local Films in the United States,1909-1934.”
Director: Dan Streible Committee: Jonathan Kahana, Anna McCarthy, Dana Polan, Robert C. Allen
2005 M.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Folklore.
Thesis title: “‘See Yourself As Others See You’ in H. Lee Waters’s ‘Movies of Local People,’1936-1942.”
2001 A.B., Brown University, Modern Culture and Media, with honors.
Source: The University of North Caroline at Chapel Hill
