Michael Johnson Jr.
Ph.D., American Studies
Michael Johnson Jr., is an instructor at Washington State University where he currently teaches both introductory and upper division, interdisciplinary undergraduate courses in the Department of Critical Culture, Race and Gender Studies. He earned his M.L.A. in Social and Political Thought (University of South Florida) and a M.S. in Library and Information Science (Florida State University). His book, Tickle My Fancy, Fat Man: Emerging Images of Race and Queer Desire on HBO, is currently under contract with Lexington Press, in its Critical Studies in Television Series. His work can be found in the Journal of Men's Studies, Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture and he has published chapters in edited collections by ABC-Clio, Praeger, Lexington Books, Palgrave Macmillan, Information Age Press and Cambridge Scholars Press to name a few. Michael's primary research interests include Foucauldian deployments of power and resistance among sexualities, constructions of masculinity, the intersections of queer and ethnoracial (re)presentations in media and their political economic production. Michael is an avid fresh-water aquarium hobbyist, enjoys listening to the blues and has unhealthy relationships with Facebook and Gentleman Jack Daniels.
Contact Dr. Johnson
mjohnso9@wsu.edu
509-335-2605 (message)
Wilson-Short 107A
Office Hours
After Class @ 2:45PM & by appointment
Course Materials
Fall 2013
- AmSt/WSt 216
- CES 101.5
- CES 280
Summer 2013
- WST 302/CES 305 (Session 2)
Past Courses