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Kendall Albert Johnson (* May 23 1969 in Peoria,IL) is an American Literature scholar . Since 2017 he is a Full Professor of American Studies at the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Hong Kong and has served as the School's Head and Programme Director from 2011 to 2017[1].

Life and Work

After spending his early childhood in Peoria,IL his family relocated to Southfield,MI in 1980 where he later attended University of Detroit Jesuit High School. Johnson earned degrees from the University of Michigan (BA English Honors) and the University of Pennsylvania (MA and PhD) and became a Professor of English and Early American Literature at Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania in 2001. In 2008 he was awarded a Visiting Associate Fulbright Professor Scholarship in the American Studies Programme at the University of Hong Kong[2][3]. Afterwards he became the Head of School of Modern Languages and Cultures (SMLC) and Director of the American Studies Programme at University of Hong Kong which he held from 2010 to 2017.[4] In 2012 Johnson was the recipient of the GRF Award on the subject "Publishing China: The First American Missionaries to China and Their Faith in the Printing Press" resulting in 3 internationally recognized peer-review publications and 11 conference papers.[5] As the Head of SMLC Johnson was instrumental in establishing a knowledge-exchange platform in cooperation with the TSL Jewellery in 2013.[6]

Johnson's early work focused on the American author Henry James and his 2007 book "Henry James and the Visual" has been reviewed as "an important addition to scholarship on James"[7] and another review in American Studies recommended it as well worth reading for anyone interested in understanding the powerful representational effect and meaning of the picturesque during the nineteenth century[8] Since 2013 he serves as frequent interview guest and expert at RTHK Radio 3 and Television providing his perspective on current and historic events with US relations.[9] His 2017 book "The New Middle Kingdom - China and the Early American Romance of Free" investigates the emergence of America’s diplomatic relationship with China and how this new alliances repositioned the US as the world’s new Middle Kingdom. This book has received favorable reviews by other scholars: Johnson has prepared the way for further explorations of how different approaches to American political economy intersected with US-China relations[10], and As a work of deep archival research, the book will be valuable to scholars of the US' first century... [11]. Johnson's book has inspired others to elaborate about the content's historic relevance for U.S. policy towards China today [12].

Research and Teaching

Kendall Johnson's main research and teaching subjects include American Literature of the 19th, colonial through early‐twentieth centuries, the history of literary theory, criticism, and cultural studies as well as China and the United States in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.[13],[14] Since 2013 he frequently serves as mentor and supervisor of MPhil and PhD students at University of Hong Kong.[15]

Selected Publications

  • "Critical Companion to Henry James: A Literary Reference to His Life and Work", Infobase Publishing, 2009, ISBN 978-0816068869.
  • "Henry James and the Visual", Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2011, ISBN 978-0-521-88066-4.
  • "Narratives of Free Trade: The Commercial Cultures of Early US-China Relations", Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong 2012, ISBN 978-9888083541.
  • "The New Middle Kingdom: China and the Early American Romance of Free Trade", Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 2017, ISBN 978-1421422510.

References

  1. ^ Handbook American Studies Programme 2011-12,[1]
  2. ^ List of yr 2008 U.S. Fulbright Scholarship recipients, [2]
  3. ^ US-China education trust-The University of Hong Kong,[3]
  4. ^ The Hong Kong University Scholars Hub, [4]
  5. ^ Research Grants Council project details,[5]
  6. ^ Press release Tse Sui Luen Jewellery (International) Limited, [6]
  7. ^ The Review of English Studies, Volume 59, Issue 239, 1 April 2008, Pages 310–312,[7]
  8. ^ American Studies, Volume 50, Number 1/2, Spring/Summer 2009, pp. 176-177, [8]
  9. ^ List Kendall Johnson RTHL Radio 3 interviews, [9]
  10. ^ Review by Dael Norwood, Binghamton University, [10]
  11. ^ American Literary History Online Review Series XIII, [11]
  12. ^ The Diplomat Flashpoint by Robert Farley,[12]
  13. ^ Taught courses at University of Pennsylvania, [13]
  14. ^ K.Johnson American Studies profile, [14]
  15. ^ Curriculum vitae, [15]


Category:1969 births

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