Allan Johnson

Professor Allan Johnson is a faculty member at the University of Surrey's Department of English Literature, specializing in literary modernism, esotericism, and psychoanalytic theory. His research explores narrative absence in 20th-century literature and the influence of occult thought on modernist aesthetics. He has authored several books, including The Sacred Life of Modernist Literature (2022) and Masculine Identity in Modernist Literature (2017), and contributes to journals such as English Studies and Studies in Musical Theatre.

Johnson supervises PhD students in interdisciplinary topics like anarchism and aestheticism at the fin de siècle, the sublime in contemporary American short stories, and mindfulness in creative processes. His teaching integrates literary theory with modernist and contemporary texts. His recent work examines mystical philosophical traditions' impact on modernist innovation, bridging esotericism with psychoanalytic and narrative frameworks.