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Christopher Johnson is an Associate Professor at Arizona State University's School of International Letters and Cultures, specializing in early modern Spanish, German, and comparative literature. His research focuses on Baroque literature, translation studies, and critical theory. He previously taught at Harvard University, UCLA, and Northwestern University, and was a research associate at the Warburg Institute in London. Johnson is the author of Memory, Metaphor, and Aby Warburg’s Atlas of Images (2012), Hyperboles: The Rhetoric of Excess in Baroque Literature and Thought (2010), and a translated edition of Selected Poetry of Francisco de Quevedo (2009). He is currently working on a book titled Baroque Expression: On Seventeenth-Century Literature, Art, and Thought for Princeton University Press.
Johnson’s teaching spans courses in comparative literature, Spanish, German, and critical theory. His academic career includes a fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin (2015) and extensive engagement with early modern intellectual history. His work bridges literary analysis with visual and artistic studies, emphasizing transatlantic and cross-cultural connections.
Education: Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from New York University.
