Assistant Professor and Director of African American and African Diaspora Studies
Academic background
Education
California State University, Los Angeles
Alma mater
Northwestern University
Thesis
My Words Dance: Doing Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Slam and Spoken Word Poetry Communities in Los Angeles and Chicago (2010)
Academic work
Discipline
Performance studies
Institutions
University of Southern California
San Francisco State University
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Main interests
Slam poetry
Notable works
Killing Poetry: Blackness and the Making of Slam and Spoken Word Communities
Javon Johnson is an American spoken word poet, writer, and professor. He is the director of African American and African Diaspora Studies in the Department of Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and the author of Killing Poetry: Blackness and the Making of Slam and Spoken Word Communities.[1][2][3]
^"Scholarly Interview with Javon Johnson, Ph.D. - University of Nevada, Las Vegas". MastersinCommunications.com. Retrieved 2023-02-20.
^"Javon Johnson, Ph.D." University of Nevada, Las Vegas. 2017-11-09. Retrieved 2023-02-20.
^"BAR Book Forum: Javon Johnson's "Killing Poetry"". Black Agenda Report. 2019-02-27. Retrieved 2023-02-20.
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Live and Die in "Chiraq."" The End of Chiraq: A Literary Mixtape. Eds JavonJohnson and Kevin Coval. Northwestern University Press. "Bresha Meadows Returns...
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