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Katherine D. Johnston is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stony Brook University. She holds a Ph.D. in Literature from the University of California, Riverside with an emphasis on media and cultural studies. Her research focuses on 20th-21st century American literature, surveillance studies, and critical data studies, particularly exploring how algorithmic data profiling shapes contemporary storytelling. She authored Profiles and Plotlines: Data Surveillance in Twentieth Century Literature, analyzing how data-driven narratives reflect societal counting economies. Her teaching spans American literature, surveillance studies, writing pedagogy, and Big Data rhetoric.
- Education: Ph.D. in Literature (UC Riverside, emphasis Media/Cultural Studies)
Her interdisciplinary research bridges literary analysis with sociopolitical critique, examining themes like racialized surveillance in Claudia Rankine’s Citizen, digital identity economics in image culture, and postcolonial trauma in indigenous narratives. Courses taught include seminars on surveillance studies, composition, and the rhetoric of emerging technologies. Her work appears in American Literature, Twentieth Century Literature, and American Indian Culture and Research Journal.
